James M. Cox Biography See Work ARTICLES / Spring 1970 Toward Vernacular Humor By James M. Cox Humor itself is the first problem and had best be faced bluntly. First and last, humor is that form of life and literature which cannot be taken seriously. Whatever the sense of humor is, the non-sense of it is making it serious. Yet making... Summer 1975 The Scarlet Letter: Through the Old Manse and the Custom House By James M. Cox
