Imagine leading the life of a secret stand-up performer unravelling people's comedy...
“Quirky, fun and deftly written. And proof that we can get great insight by looking at life through the lens of humor.”
—Michael Benari
About Joe Boskin
Joe Boskin is an emeritus professor of American Social and Ethnic History at Boston University. Overall, his focus has been on the origins of slavery, racial stigmatization, urban revolts, and people's humor. His works include Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester (1986); Rebellious Laughter: People's Humor in American Culture (1997). His most recent published work is Corporal Boskin's Cold Cold War: A Comical Journey (2011), a narrative of his role as the historian of a top secret, scientific expeditionary unit in northern Greenland during the Korean War.
About A Comedy of Pretzels
A young, radical assistant professor of Sociology leads a double-life. He is a vibrant and involved scholar but also a secret, unique, stand-up comic unravelling the twisted pretzels of people's humor. Neither his acclaimed wife, his gangster father, his tyrannical university president, nor his colleagues have an inkling of this duality. Up for tenure he is certain to be denied if he is outed, which he is, with tantalizing consequences.
