Overview

Brian Lobel was diagnosed with testicular cancer aged 20. After writing and performing the monologue Ball, a quirky monologue about his experiences of surviving cancer, he went on to write Other Funny Stories about Cancer. “[It] became my attempt to fill the äóÖcancer story' with what I perceived as the crucial missing piece: the story about what stories were edited out before the äóÖcancer story' was made, packaged and canonized.äó Contained in the volume Ball & Other Funny Stories about Cancer.