"His imagined situations read like sketches he might have conceived at his old job as a writer for Saturday Night Live.Rich knows how to balance the smart with the funny."- Patrick Cassels, New York Times Book Review Telltale signs include the elegant skewering of adult human behavior, as glimpsed through the eyes of children, animals, spectral beings, or inanimate objects-and the fact that the reader is hunched over laughing."- Joe Berkowitz, Fast Company "It's always fairly obvious when a 'Shouts and Murmurs' piece in The New Yorker is the product of Simon Rich.
Like the reverse of an actor."- Sloane Crosley, author of I Was Told There'd Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number Simon Rich is also much taller in real life than you'd think. "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. Novak, author of One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories and star of "The Office" First-rate comedy with a heartbeat, this is one of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors."- B.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. "I can't recommend any Simon Rich book - especially this one - highly enough.
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