{"product_id":"9781552453360","title":"In on the Great Joke","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching gig? What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife? What happens if a girl is stopped at a red light for an entire year? \u003ci\u003eIn on the Great Joke \u003c\/i\u003e is a palace of hybridity, where film structure informs poetry, poetry alters the essay, the essay recalibrates the joke. Broadbent has lent her ear to the dead, the living, the voiceless, to give us the punchline of what it means to be intellectually alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLaura Broadbent \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eOh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining?\u003c\/i\u003e , which won the 2012 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She lives in Montreal, Queceb, where she is working on her PhD in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035524415728,"sku":"9781552453360","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552453360_p0.jpg?v=1763753878","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552453360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}