Simon Rich

Focusing on all kinds of love, this short story collection features tales about God struggling to balance his career and his girlfriend as well as an account of a young girl's imaginary friend who wants to become more.Our orders are sent from our warehouse locally or directly from our international distributors to allow us to offer you the best possible price and delivery time.

Seymour isn''t cool, but he isn''t a geek either. He''s a lonely, obedient 8th grade loser at Glendale, a second tier prep school in Manhattan. His chubbiness has recently earned him the nick name ''Chunk Style'' and he has resigned himself to a life of isolation. All of this is about to change. After successfully getting himself expelled from every reputable school in the country, Elliot Allagash, the arrogant heir of America''s largest fortune, finds himself marooned at Glendale. Try as he may, Elliot cannot get expelled this time; his father has simply donated too much money. Bitter and bored, Elliot decides to amuse himself by taking up a new hobby: transforming Seymour into the most popular student in school. An unlikely friendship develops between these two loners as Elliot introduces Seymour to new concepts, like power, sabotage and vengeance. With Elliot as his diabolical guide, Seymour gradually learns about all of the incredible things that money can buy, and the one or two things that it can''t. Hilarious, ingenious and tightly plotted, Elliot Allagash, like a teen movie in novel form, reminds you what your teens were like, and why growing up is so hard to do.

The "hilarious" (New York Times Book Review) collection of short stories from the award-winning humorist Simon Rich includes the story that inspired the Seth Rogen comedy An American Pickle. Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nations children they were special. Were still paying the price. From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists -- and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way. A hardworking immigrant is preserved for a century in pickle brine. A helicopter mom strives to educate her demon son. And a family of hamsters struggles to survive in a private-school homeroom. Surreal, shrewd, and surprisingly warm, these stories are as resonant as they are hilarious.

Originally published as What in God''s Name.How can you help mankind, when they won''t help themselves? Welcome to Heaven Inc, and Craig''s life.From the Sunsets Department and Geyser Regulation to the Department of Miracles, Heaven Inc has the earth covered. Unless someone is away from their desk. And these days, the CEO is kind of disillusioned.God knows he should be keeping an eye on the bad things happening on Earth, but instead he finds himself watching the Church channels on satellite TV. His first priority is the team of angels he''s asked to get Lynyrd Skynyrd back together.Downstairs on the office floor, Eliza has been promoted from the Prayers Department to Miracles, and Craig, the only other workaholic in heaven, has to show her around. Eliza is shocked by the casual attitude of many of the angels in her new department. And she''s furious when she discovers that God has never looked at, let alone answered, a single prayer.So she storms into God''s office and asks Him a question that no one has ever dared to ask before. And it might just be the end of the world.

Laugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning Serena Williams of humor writing (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a comedic Godsend by Conan OBrien and the Stephen King of comedy writing by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet. Two murderous pirates find a child stowaway on board and attempt to balance pillaging with co-parenting. A woman raised by wolves prepares for her parents annual Thanksgiving visit. An aging mutant superhero is forced to learn humility when the mayor kicks him upstairs to a desk job. And in the hard-boiled caper The Big Nap, a weary two-year-old detective struggles to make sense of a world gone mad. Equal parts silly and sincere, New Teeth is an ode to growing up, growing older, and what it means to make a family.

Simon Rich, Homme cherche femme et autres histoires damourTraduit de langlais par Thierry Beauchamp" Lhomme le plus drôle des Etats-Unis ? " une du GuardianQue vous soyez un martien, un homme préhist

Simon Rich, Homme cherche femme et autres histoires damourTraduit de langlais par Thierry Beauchamp" Lhomme le plus drôle des Etats-Unis ? " une du GuardianQue vous soyez un martien, un homme préhist

Seymour isn't cool, but he isn't a geek either. He's a lonely, obedient 8th grade loser at Glendale, a second tier prep school in Manhattan. His chubbiness has recently earned him the nick name "Chunk Style" and he has resigned himself to a life of isolation. All of this is about to change.

Having skewered the problems of falling in and out of love in The Last Girlfriend on Earth, Simon Rich's next book is another subject we can all relate to: parents and their kids. From the perils of raising an actual monster in Manhattan - it's pretty hard to find teachers who really understand the talents of a five-year-old with horns and a taste for blood - to Sell Out, the story of Simon's ancestor, returned to life decades after an industrial accident involving pickling brine, these stories are inventive, witty and sometimes a bit too much like real life.

It doesn't matter if you're a caveman, a time traveller or a regular person. Sooner or later, someone's going to break your heart. The sketches in Simon Rich's new book are bizarre, funny, and - if you've ever been in love - all too familiar. From the invisible man stalking his ex, to Sherlock Holmes' only blind spot, The Last Girlfriend on Earth is always enchanting, often sweet, though occasionally awkward. Just like love itself. 'The Last Girlfriend On Earthis silly, surreal, sometimes sad and always laugh-out-loud funny. This collection will have you giggling/crying/squirming in recognition, and wondering what exactly Simon Rich has eaten to dream all this stuff up ...pulls off the tough trick of being both heart-warming and hilarious - it's a must-read if you've ever so much as had a crush on someone' Heat 'Pithy, occasionally bonkers' Time Out 'Truly hilarious' Eva Wiseman, Observer

A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writers real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars. Simon Rich is "one of the funniest writers in America" (Daily Beast) -- a humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (New York Times Book Review), James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian). With Hits and Misses, hes back with a hilarious new collection of stories about dreaming big and falling flat, about ordinary people desperate for stardom and the stars who are bored by having it all. Inspired by Richs real experiences in Hollywood, Hits and Misses chronicles all the absurdity of fame and success alongside the heartbreaking humanity of failure. From a bitter tell-all by the horse Paul Revere rode to greatness to a gushing magazine profile of everyones favorite World War II dictator, these stories roam across time and space to skewer our obsession with making it big -- from the days of ancient Babylon to the age of TMZ.

THE BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2024 An "absolutely hilarious and singular" (Tommy Orange) collection of "laugh-out-loud" (People) stories about millennials entering the abyss of middle agefrom Thurber Prize-winning author Simon Rich, "one of the funniest writers in America" (NPR). Simon Rich returns with a batch of cant-miss stories in which Super Mario turns forty and is forced to take-a stock of his life and how messed up its-a become. Goliath struggles to control the media narrative in the lead-up to his death match against David, a small, beloved child. And a long-discarded participation trophy reminisces about the glorious field day in 1993, when he wound up in the arms of a jubilant, asthmatic Simon Rich. High-stakes and heartfelt, Glory Days mourns the death of youthful innocence and hails the beginning of something approximating wisdom.

For centuries, lovers have found inspiration and advice in the ancient text of the Kama Sutra. Now, Simon Rich - one of the funniest writers in America (The Daily Beast) - and Farley Katz have unearthed a valuable new document - a guide to the positions most common after marriage. From the interrupted congress to the beaching of the whales, here are the poses, positions and games married lovers play to keep the spark alive - and the dishwasher properly loaded. Complete with illustrations in the style of the original Kama Sutra, but with modern, domestic accoutrements: dirty nappies, TV remotes, and wine glasses aplenty.

Now a hit TBS comedy: Miracle Workers is "a near perfect work of humor" (NPR) about two underpaid angels working in the Department of Miracles. Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, hes been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, its not to resolve wars or end famines, but to Google himself and read what humans have been blogging about him.When God decides to retire (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant), he also decides to destroy Earth. His employees take the news in stride, except for Craig and Eliza, two underpaid angels in the lowly Department of Miracles. Unlike their boss, Craig and Eliza love their jobs uncapping city fire hydrants on hot days, revealing lost keys in snow banks and they refuse to accept that earth is going under.The angels manage to strike a deal with their boss. Hell call off his Armageddon, if they can solve their toughest miracle yet: getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love. With doomsday fast approaching, and the humans ignoring every chance for happiness thrown their way, Craig and Eliza must move heaven and earth to rescue them -- and the rest of us, too.

In Center of the Universe, God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In Magical Mr. Goat, a young girls imaginary friend yearns to become "more than friends." In Unprotected, an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boys wallet. The stories in Simon Richs new book are bizarre, funny, and yet...relatable. Rich explores loves many complications-losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it-and turns the ordinary into the absurd. With razor-sharp humor and illustrations, and just in time for Valentines Day, Rich takes readers for an exhilarating, hilarious ride on the rollercoaster of love.

In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich found humor in some of lifes most desperate situations. Now this former editor of The Harvard Lampoon and current writer for Saturday Night Live has returned to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world.In the nostalgic opening chapter, Rich recalls his fear of the Tooth Fairy (Is there a face fairy?) and his initial reaction to the Got-your-nose game (Please just kill me. Better to die than to live the rest of my life as a monster). He goes on to present Count Draculas desperate Match.com profile (I am normal human looking for human woman to come to castle. I am normal, regular human). Later, he gets inside the heads of two firehouse Dalmatians who cant understand their masters compulsion to drive off to horrible fires every day.And in the final chapter, he tackles some of lifes biggest questions: Does God really have a plan for us? Yes,it turns out. Now if only He could remember what it was. . . .Praise for Simon Richs Ant FarmAnt Farm has an imaginative power that can trigger snort-fests. . . . Ferociously creative, this book is for readers craving both smart humor and belly laughs.People (four stars)Savagely funny.The New York TimesHilarious. Open this book anywhere, begin reading, and you will laugh.Jon StewartAnt Farm is what all humor books should be: full of brief, high-concept musings that you wish youd thought of yourself.Time Out New YorkA satirical salmagundi that bites back . . . Imaginative premises abound. . . . As unpredictable as YouTube, as in your face as MySpace.Publishers Weekly

In Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculousness of our everyday lives. The world, he concludes, is a hopelessly terrifying placewith endless comic potential.If your girlfriend gives you some love coupons and then breaks up with you, are the coupons still valid?What kind of performance pressure does an endangered male panda feel when his captors bring the last remaining female panda to his cage?If murderers can get into heaven by accepting Jesus, just how awkward is it when they run into their victims?Join Simon Rich as he explores the extraordinary and hilarious desperation that resides in ordinary life, from cradle to grave."Hilarious." Jon Stewart

Kamasutra para matrimonios, de Simon Rich y Farley Katz, es un divertido libro sobre las posturas más practicadas por las parejas estables. Un libro muy divertido apto para el gran público. Tiene ironia, pero tambien ternura, y se rie de los conflictos cotidianos de las parejas estables, y de la dificultad de practicar sexo en las parejas que tienen niños por falta de tiempo, cansancio, aburrimiento. Un buena terapia para que nos riamos de nosotros mismos y desdramaticemos. Kamasutra para matrimonios es un libro de sexologia para hombre y mujeres que ayudara a la pareja a romper la rutina y a disfrutar de la vida matrimonial.Durante siglos, los amantes han encontrado en el Kamasutra una fuente de inspiracion y de sabiduria. En pleno siglo xxi, Simon Rich y Farley Katz dan una sorprendente vuelta de tuerca a ese gran clasico de las artes amatorias, y nos ofrecen un ingenioso compendio de las posturas mas practicadas por las parejas estables: desde la postura del lavavajillas hasta la postura de esto no es lo que me habiancontado, pasando por la postura de la pesadilla recurrente. Kamasutra para matrimonios es un libro divertidisimo que lograra que todas las parejas se rian de si mismas, y que vuelvan a sentir la llama del amor y del deseo en su relacion.