Max Winter

Jan 8, 2025 | telegraphherald.com | Max Winter

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Aug 4, 2024 | pressherald.com | Max Winter

Graduate school can be hell. The world of stand-up comedy can be hell. The competition in both can be fierce, and the rewards can be chimerical, to put it gently. So to set a novel in the world of an MFA program for stand-ups is funny, but it’s also painful. Camille Bordas’s “The Material,” about the students and faculty at a fictional graduate program for comics in Chicago, is a prolonged exploration of where jokes come from, their impact and their staying power.

Jul 22, 2024 | msn.com | Max Winter

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Jul 22, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Max Winter

Graduate school can be hell. The world of stand-up comedy can be hell. The competition in both can be fierce, and the rewards can be chimerical, to put it gently. So to set a novel in the world of an MFA program for stand-ups is funny, but it’s also painful. Camille Bordas’s “The Material,” about the students and faculty at a fictional graduate program for comics in Chicago, is a prolonged exploration of where jokes come from, their impact and their staying power.

Jan 18, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Max Winter |Bora Chung |Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Sometimes the transmissions books send us are very simple, as easy as “Love fades” or “Maturing hurts” or “War is hell.” But when we bear down on these concepts, they acquire layers that represent their lives as ideas and their development inside the individual work, with each layer displaying its own peculiar character.