Tag: Sara Cline

  • Curl Up with This and Break Free: How the Hothouse Staff Escapes Stress

    As you know from the many opening lines in the many emails  you’ve received, the world is a confusing and often-frightening place to live in right now. In the long tradition of turning towards stories to temporarily escape the chaos around us, the Hothouse staff has compiled some of our favorite works that provide us…

  • Literary Lessons from Stand-Up Comedy

    Written by Sara Cline I’ll be forthright: I’m a stand-up comic. That means I’m absolutely biased in my argument that stand-up comedy should have a place in the literary canon, alongside the likes of prose, poetry, and drama. To my credit, I was a fiction-writer, poet, and English major before I ever stepped foot into…