Deliriously Happy - by Larry Doyle (Paperback)

About the Book

"No matter the subject, Doyle can be trenchant, funny, esoteric, and unpredictable." --Publishers Weekly

A former writer for The Simpsons and winner of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, Larry Doyle redefined end-of-school-life angst with his novel I Love You, Beth Cooper and put the alien back in alienation with Go, Mutants! And now he's Deliriously Happy, bringing readers a compilation of truly hilarious short pieces including favorites from The New Yorker and Esquire as well as all-new, never before published comic gems. Dave Barry did it. So did Simon Rich, Woody Allen, and Ian Frazier. Now Larry Doyle's making his mark with an uproarious collection of side-splitting observances about everything from birth to death and beyond. Anyone who loves to laugh will be Deliriously Happy.

Book Synopsis

"No matter the subject, Doyle can be trenchant, funny, esoteric, and unpredictable."

A former writer for The Simpsons and winner of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor, Larry Doyle redefined end-of-school-life angst with his novel I Love You, Beth Cooper and put the alien back in alienation with Go, Mutants! And now he's Deliriously Happy, bringing readers a compilation of truly hilarious short pieces including favorites from The New Yorker and Esquire as well as all-new, never before published comic gems. Dave Barry did it. So did Simon Rich, Woody Allen, and Ian Frazier. Now Larry Doyle's making his mark with an uproarious collection of side-splitting observances about everything from birth to death and beyond. Anyone who loves to laugh will be Deliriously Happy.

What happens when a James Thurber Prize-winning humorist turns his satirical eye on life, love, and pop culture?

• Social Satire: From dating tips and office politics to suing your childhood bully, no part of modern life is safe from Doyle's absurdly keen observations.
• Pop Culture Humor: A former writer for The Simpsons skewers everything from Hollywood movie-making to our obsession with celebrity, delivered with the signature wit honed at The New Yorker and Esquire.
• Uproarious Short Stories: Discover a world of bumbling spies, talking dogs with memoirs, and the hilarious, high-stakes drama of a family fun center.
• Laugh Out Loud Funny: For fans of Woody Allen, Simon Rich, and Dave Barry, this collection of comic gems delivers intelligent, unpredictable, and side-splitting humor on every page.

From the Back Cover

Do you like dogs? Babies? Baby dogs? Have you ever eaten ice cream or had love troubles? Wish there were dirty parts in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you.

It's all here: This impressively consecutive collection of funny writing by Larry Doyle, the winner of the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor, a former writer for The Simpsons, and the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper, brings together an astonishing range of subjects under the umbrella of hilarious--an umbrella that is your free gift if you order right now.

Too late. But you can still take home this enormously entertaining read, featuring writing from the New Yorker, Esquire, and National Lampoon, along with never-before-seen pieces only available in this exclusive offer. Here's what other happy customers had to say:

"[Doyle] is, as his credits suggest, wickedly funny." --New York Times Book Review

"If Earth ever needs an Interplanetary Humor Ambassador, Larry Doyle's the guy."--Washington Post

Review Quotes

"An instant classic, right up there with great end-of-school landmarks like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused." - Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of LITTLE CHILDREN

"An ambitious, goo-covered treat." - The Onion

"A dizzyingly diverse and consistently hilarious body of short humor pieces originally published in a variety of publications, making a case for the former Simpsons scribe as one of the premier practitioners of the form....An unpredictable, unfailingly intelligent demonstration of a unique wit given free reign." - Kirkus Reviews

"Doyle's third book, Deliriously Happy...collects Doyle's humorous essays from The New Yorker, National Lampoon, Esquire, and elsewhere. His scenarios often feature characters who are in fact deliriously--or delusionally--happy." - The Onion A.V. Club

"Delightful -- letter-perfect literature parodies, absurd tabloid-rag quizzes, and a slew of other unlikely stylistic landings stuck." - Flavorpill

"Larry Doyle's nervy, off-the-wall, often naughty, always hilarious essays will make you Deliriously Happy." - Vanity Fair

"Flagrantly funny . . . Larry Doyle gies the coming-of-age novel a swirly." - Vanity Fair

"The book is great. Those among us who will forever self-identify as recovering high-school outcasts . . . will delight in this dark, absurdist, insandely funny send-up of a John Hughes movie. . . . Buy it." - New York magazine

"Fresh, sweet, seriously funny." - Newsweek

"No matter the subject, Doyle can be trenchant, funny, esoteric, and unpredictable." - Publishers Weekly

"Dark, funny, strange, funny, angst, funny. Sometimes we felt bad for laughing. But we did it anyway." - Huffington Post, 11 Books You Need to Know About

"In part a loving homage to and in part a send-up of '50s sci-fi, "Go, Mutants!" is one of the funniest books of the summer." - San Francisco Chronicle

"Go, Mutants! is a fast, frenetic read crammed to the nictitating membranes with fun-to-spot references to classic science-fiction films. Dizzily high-concept it may be, but Doyle knows what he's doing with his central metaphor: By putting the alien in alienation, Go Mutants! hits on something true about the loneliness -- and the creeping terror -- that is adolescence." - NPR.org

"Very funny. . . Go, Mutants! moves at faster-than-light speed. If Earth ever needs an Interplanetary Humor Ambassador, Larry Doyle's the guy." - Washington Post, Best Book of 2010

"Gleefully clever and adroitly sweet." - USA Today