About the Author

Mikita Brottman is Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is the author of Car Crash Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor (Analytic Press, 2004), among other books.

Reviews

Consistently witty and intelligent, informed by a cheerful nihilism. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
--Science Fiction Studies

For those called to be diagnostic morticians of a sick culture. Not recommended for the faint.
--Choice