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Dave Barry: &#;I Became a Humor Writer Because I Had No Plan&#;
From the first-ever episode of The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan, re-listen to Dave Barry as he joined Mitchell to discuss the turbulent eighties Miami, his days as a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, and the time Bruce Springsteen played in Dave’s band, with Dave’s guitar. We can all use some Dave Barry humor these days.
From the episode:
Dave Barry: My career has been entirely accidental. I get asked a lot by younger people, how do you become a humor writer? And I say, well, don&#;t. I did it because I had no plan. I went to work at a little newspaper called the Daily Local News, and I was there and then I went to the Associated Press. So far, so good. This would be a traditional path to becoming a humor columnist. Then I was at the A.P. Associate Press in Philadelphia, and I did not like it. I called it the word army. You know, the goal with the AP is that nobody could tell which writer wrote what stories. &#; I get that, but I hated it.
While unhappily at the A.P. in Philly, a friend of mine&#;s father had a heart attack and he needed somebody to replace him in his business, which was teaching effective
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Dave lives in City, Florida, mount his helpmate, Michelle, a sportswriter
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- Humorist
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- Wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than newspapers
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Dave Barry Speaker Biography
Dave Barry has been a professional humorist ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working.
For many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than newspapers and generated thousands of letters from readers who thought he should be fired. Despite this, Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, although he misplaced it for several years, which is w