![]() This is the story of a megalomaniacal monster named Mark Leyner, who’s the most important person in America, with his own line of fragrances. The Port Ruppert Mundys’ game against an insane asylum is my favorite sequence in any Roth novel ever! It’s hard to explain - the narrative bounces around constantly and it’s extremely digressive - but it’s about a fictional third baseball league. ![]() It’s also a hilarious satire of greed.Ī lot of Roth’s funniest novels take place in the natural world. It’s about an eccentric billionaire who devotes his life and fortune to pulling pranks, from benevolent to nasty, for the sole purpose of making himself laugh, just right for an aspiring comedy writer. I was introduced to this by my high-school English teacher, Steve Bender, who was also the faculty advisor to our humor magazine. Now 31, Rich (son of Frank, brother of Nathaniel) grew up in New York, went to the Dalton School and Harvard and became, at 22, a writer for “SNL.” A longtime fan of “The Simpsons,” Roald Dahl and “The Twilight Zone,” Rich says that he’s always attracted to writers who are willing to take big leaps. “It’s the strangest thing I’ve ever worked on, but I hope it’s relatable,” says Rich, whose stories for the New Yorker include “Unprotected,” the life story of a condom. It’s a novel idea, and Simon Rich ran with it, turning it into an episode of FXX’s “Man Seeking Woman,” which follows a millennial braving the shark-infested waters of dating. Imagine your girlfriend dumping you - for Adolf Hitler.
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