{"_id":"654dd4c1c2058043d5743790","title":"Confessions of a Humorist","author":"O. Henry","code":"confessions-of-a-humorist","publish_year":1914,"publish_source":"Ainslee’s","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_ainslees_1914-11_34_4/page/84/mode/2up","publish_edition":"Vol. 34, Iss. 4","words":3325,"image":"writing.jpg","image_alt":"A pen writing on lined paper. Graphite filter.","genres":["literary","quirky"],"description":"A clerk earns popularity as the towns humourist after a successful speech and a string of clever quips. Soon he is out of his drudgy office job and writing for a weekly publication, but the new work paradoxically begins to remove the humour from his life.","blurb":"I found myself listening to catch available ideas from the conversation of my friends. Sometimes I chewed my pencil and gazed at the wall paper for hours trying to build up some gay little bubble of unstudied fun.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":[{"code":"fifteen-minute-stories","title":"15 Minute Stories","collection_type":"static"}]}