CaryCitizen.com Welcomes Humor Writer Cris Cohen

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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC (1888PressRelease) May 04, 2011 - The online newspaper CaryCitizen.com has added another dimension to its offerings: a new humor column by Cary resident Cris Cohen. His first column, entitled "A Visit to the Chiropractor," is online now at www.carycitizen.com.

For several years, Cohen wrote a weekly column that ran in several California newspapers. Since he and his family moved to Cary in 2008, he's been writing a humor blog "Nothing In Particular" at criscohen.typepad.com. He's also preparing to publish his first book, Staying Crazy To Keep From Going Insane, a collection of his columns that he will use to raise funds for a local baseball league for kids with special needs.

This spring, Cohen ran a contest on the blog to celebrate the fact that he received an endorsement for the book from one of his humor-writing heroes, Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry. He invited his readers to submit a guest post for "Nothing In Particular." The writer with the funniest post would receive a copy of Barry's newest book I'll Mature When I'm Dead.

As it turned out, CaryCitizen editor-at-large Leslie Huffman came through with the winning post, "My Invisible Car," which appeared on "Nothing In Particular" on April 15. And that brought Cohen's work to the attention of CaryCitizen editor and publisher Hal Goodtree, who invited Cohen to start writing for the online newspaper.

"Cris Cohen reminds me of David Sedaris, another writer and essayist with roots in the Triangle," said Goodtree. "Like Sedaris, Cris satirizes himself as much as turning the foil to poke fun at others. It's personal, and it's rooted in a place: Cary, NC. He makes a good fit with our readership and brings a new dimension to CaryCitizen. Special thanks to Leslie Huffman for bringing Cris into the fold."

CaryCitizen.com covers news, sports, community events, and business in Cary, NC, and surrounding communities. Cohen said he's delighted to be a part of the publication.

"I am very excited to be a contributor to the Cary Citizen, a publication whose history reaches all the way back to last Tuesday," Cohen quipped. "It is possible that their offer of employment was meant for someone else. It would explain why their letter began 'Dear Helen'. Still, I hope that, like all successful relationships, this one is filled with joy, tenderness, and only occasional threats of litigation."

Cohen will contribute his humor column to CaryCitizen at least once a month. To read the current column, go to www.carycitizen.com/ For more information on Cris Cohen and to read his blog, visit criscohen.typepad.com.

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