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• “The recital ended in seriocomic despair, with the rueful statement that "the impression I probably made on her darkened mind was, that it was the American custom to breakfast children on bread soaked in whisky instead of light Italian wine.”

  Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes

• “What Marshall is after is a kind of seriocomic panorama of working-class love and loneliness in the big city.”

  Newsweek: Love Over Easy, Hold The Mayo

• “NY's Muslim punk scene comes under scrutiny in this seriocomic adaptation of Michael Muhammad Knight's 2003 novel.”

  The Guardian: This week's new films

• “Junot Diaz's also seriocomic, also Pulitzer-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao initially focuses on Oscar -- a New Jersey-based, overweight, socially inept, nice-guy nerd smitten with comic books, Tolkien, Star Trek, and unavailable females.”

  The Huffington Post: Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels

• “The star of Middlesex is the gender-conflicted Calliope/Cal, but Jeffrey Eugenides' seriocomic 2002 novel is also an Ellis Island/melting-pot story.”

  The Huffington Post: Dave Astor: The Importance of Immigration in Novels

• “But his almost seriocomic The Black Obelisk has several funny scenes that offer comic relief in the otherwise haunting, ominous tale set in 1923 Germany.”

  The Huffington Post: Dave Astor: Serious Novelists Are Sometimes Surprisingly Funny

• “Rumpole fans can savor a bailiff's dozen of Rumpole's seriocomic adventures in "Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories" Viking, 502 pages, $30 .”

  The Wall Street Journal: Stains of Blood on New-Fallen Snow

• “Chris Rock examines the cultural relationship between African Americans and their hair in this seriocomic documentary.”

  This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite, Cabin Fever 2, and More | /Film

• “In his introduction to this collection, a former Rolling Stone editor Paul Scanlon writes about how the young Thompson used to enter their San-Francisco-based office "with a bowlegged quickstep, making the zigzagging seriocomic, dramatic entrance," then plop down his leather rucksack while wordlessly removing the contents, which "usually included something edible, like a grapefruit, a carton of Dunhills, a large police flashlight, a bottle of Wild Turkey and a can of liquid Mace.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

• “TNT's dramedy took some time to find its voice in its first season, but with a trio of Emmy-winning Everybody Loves Raymond vets Tucker Cawley, Lew Schneider and cocreator Mike Royce now on the writing staff, the show is settling into a pleasingly seriocomic tone.”

  Cheers & Jeers: Men of a Certain Age's Ray of Hope

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