Lessons Learned From The World's Shortest Humor Book

Part 9 of 30—"how to write a funny prose piece"

photo: Luiz Lapa

Short

Each short humor piece collected in Simon Rich’s first book, Ant Farm, averages around 100 words.

His publisher had to pad the book with enormous leading (the space between lines), liberal use of blank and half-blank pages, and margins squeezed practically to the center of the book.

They did everything they could to fluff the collecti…