Who could ask for more? You can give his books to people and just watch them laugh. He is a Thurber, even a Wodehouse, for today. Rich has a wonderful way of making a familiar situation strange and then presenting it in deceptively simple language, within a perfectly lucid, concise structure. If you do, you'll need no encouragement from me to get hold of his latest collection of short stories. If you don't yet know about Simon Rich, you just got lucky. Novak, author of One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories and star of "The Office" Simon Rich is the funniest writer alive First-rate comedy with a heartbeat, this is one of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors.ī.J. From the hyper-competitive rituals of Scrabble players to the laments of a grieving, widowed hamster in an elementary school classroom, each story in Spoiled Brats opens with a brilliant comedic perspective that only gets funnier, more fascinating, more surprising, and more insightful from there. Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number I can't recommend any Simon Rich book - especially this one - highly enough. Simon Rich is also much taller in real life than you'd think. Read more Laverne Simon Rich is a comedic shape shifter, adopting the plights of hamsters and hipsters alike, and Spoiled Brats is vividly hilarious in the way Woody Allen and Donald Barthelme are vividly hilarious. Simon Rich is outrageously, lavishly giftedĪrguably the wittiest American humourist of his generationĪ James Thurber for our times, in Borges' suit, wearing Flann O'Brien's hat
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