Deliriously Happy: and Other Bad Thoughts

By Larry Doyle

“No topic the topic, Doyle will be trenchant, humorous, esoteric, and unpredictable.”
 —Publishers Weekly

A former author for The Simpsons and winner of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, Larry Doyle redefined end-of-school-life angst along with his novel I Love You, Beth Cooper and positioned the alien again in alienation with Go, Mutants! And now he’s Deliriously Happy, bringing readers a compilation of actually hilarious brief items together with favorites from The New Yorker and Esquire in addition to all-new, by no means prior to released comedian gemstones. Dave Barry did it.  So did Simon wealthy, Woody Allen, and Ian Frazier. Now Larry Doyle’s making his mark with an uproarious number of side-splitting observances approximately every thing from start to dying and past. somebody who likes to giggle could be Deliriously Happy.

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