BE HYSTERICAL: A Seminar on Voice, Style, Emotion (Zoom) with Elissa Bassist, Sunday, September 21st, 2025

Sunday, September 21st, 2025 Live Seminar via Zoom from 3:00PM - 5:30PM EST  Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Elissa Bassist is the editor of the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and the author of Hysterical, a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. As a founding contributor to The Rumpus, Elissa has written cultural and personal criticism since the website launched in 2009. INSIDE JOKES, a humor writing craft book, co-written with Caitlin Kunkel, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing in 2026. Elissa teaches humor writing at The New School and elsewhere, and she is probably her therapist’s favorite.  Q: When is writing bad? A: When anyone could have written it.     Q: Has anyone ever called you “too much”? Have you ever been accused of being “dramatic”? A: Good. We’ll use that. Because to write "too much" is exactly enough, and our emotion is a writing skill.  Having a “voice” and a writing “sty