TW: mentions of death, suicide and dark humour 

Adam Valen Levinson is the author of the nonfiction novel The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah (W. W. Norton, 2017) — dubbed "Eat, Pray, Laugh" by The New York Times but/and not without its controversy.  Morgan Parker, the National Book Critics Circle award winner for poetry, called him "an incredibly generous, compassionate, and thorough writer who gorgeously blends lyricism with reportage and philosophy with a confession."  Adam has written, filmed, and photographed for Al Jazeera, The Paris Review, Haaretz, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and VICE, and done college stints at the Meccas of real fake news, namely, The Colbert Report and The Onion. He holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and is in the latter stages of his PhD at Yale University, where he travels globally to investigate new standup comedy scenes as a fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology. You can find out more about Adam and his work on his website. 

In this episode, we dig a bit deeper into humour and standup comedy as his areas of research. 

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