Simon Rich has written for "Saturday Night Live," Pixar, and "The Simpsons." He is the creator and showrunner of "Man Seeking Woman" (FXX) and "Miracle Workers," (TBS), which he based on his books. His other collections include Hits and Misses, Spoiled Brats, and Ant Farm. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.
A Slate Best Book of 2014 "I can't recommend any Simon Rich book -
especially this one - highly enough. 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. First-rate comedy with a heartbeat, this is one of my
favorite books from one of my favorite authors."--B.J. Novak,
author of One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories and star of
"The Office"
"Spoiled Brats is brilliant, original, hilarious... An anthology as
endlessly clever as it is hysterical...throughout the book, Rich
displays brilliance and hilarity you won't soon forget. It's easily
the funniest, most original read I've found in a while, and it
comes with a dollop of insight to boot. I could bore you with more
superlatives, but why bother? there's no chance of buyer's remorse
on a book this enjoyable."--Associated Press
"Spoiled Brats might just be the funniest book of the
year."--Harper's Bazaar
"A mix of gentle surrealism and smiley satire, the stories are
bright, witty, occasionally tart, and just the right side of
sappy... Just as most of Woody Allen's prose is given depth by his
terror of death, so, as the title suggests, Spoiled Brats attacks
the privileged excesses of liberal America in a fashion akin to
what we used to call anatomizing their follies."--Telegraph
(UK)
"From the author who brings new meaning to laugh-out-loud, comes a
collection of stories about a generation of narcissists and their
parents, who only had the best intentions. Rich's uproarious
stories will undoubtedly have you nodding in agreement."--Harper's
Bazaar
"Hilarious characters... every story rings true."--Library
Journal
"I hate Simon Rich, the person. I love Simon Rich, the writer. This
book is my favorite one of his yet."--Charles Yu, author of Sorry
Please Thank You
"Laugh-out-loud funny. [Rich] can conjure authentic,
from-the-abdomen laughter on almost every page. He stacks
surrealism on top of slick satire on top of pure childish silliness
in such a brilliant and condensed way, there are sometimes three
laugh-out-loud moments within the same paragraph... This collection
of stories isn't simply the funniest book of the year. It might
just make us think about the spoiled brats we've become."--The
Guardian (UK)
"Ridiculous in the very best way... Spoiled Brats mocks its
protagonists without being mean; we find ourselves sympathizing and
relating with these characters even as we laugh at them.
Straight-up cynicism feels a little cruel, but Rich stays away from
that, and his stories make the same old tropes feel fresh and funny
and new again... Spoiled Brats is undeniably funny, but its real
genius is that, like the best comedy, it encourages introspection
as well."--Bookpage
"Sharply funny and occasionally self-lacerating."
--Chicago Tribune
"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 also much taller in real life than you'd think. 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, in his new collection, Spoiled Brats, is in the
Blazing Saddles phase of his writing career... As hilarious a
portrait as you'll find of the self-involved, easily outraged,
post-post-post-post-ironic world into which we've dumped the next
generation... As solid a piece of comic writing as I've read in a
long time."
--New York Times Book Review
"What you can expect from Rich's writing is to be transported to a
place that is at its core, fundamentally familiar, but at the same
time, utterly confusing. It's like entering your childhood home
through a secret passage no one ever told you about. It's these
different approaches that make Rich's writing so enjoyable, because
his stories are absurd without being entirely fantastical. They are
relatable, more than anything."--MTV.com
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