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Books n Stuff

Simon Rich's New Novella Is Being Serialized in 'The New Yorker' Starting Today

by | January 29th, 2013

Former SNL writer Simon Rich's new novella Sell Out is being serialized this week in The New Yorker. You can check out Part 1 of 4 now. The next three parts will be released tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday. It follows a fictionalized version of Simon Rich meeting his immigrant great-great-grandfather who was preserved in brine for 100 years after a factory accident, only to find himself baffled by his descendant Simon's carefree lifestyle as a screenwriter. Rich's collection of short stories The Last Girlfriend on Earth just came out last week, so between that and this novella, 2013 has already been a incredibly productive year for him as an [...]

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Simon Rich Gets Romantic With "Trade"

by | May 25th, 2011

From within her ice palace beneath the frozen Antarctic tundra, Drew Barrymore telepathically optioned the film rights to SNL writer Simon Rich's "Trade" the millisecond The New Yorker hit newsstands. Enjoy Rich's story now before it is infused with fragrant Justin Long essences.

Writers

How to Be Simon Rich

by | August 17th, 2012

"So many times I’d write a sketch set at, say, a marriage counselor’s office and I was so naïve and unsophisticated working in television that I would literally have the opening line of dialogue be, 'Well, here we are at the marriage counseling center.' When you’re coming from the world of print, it’s not obvious that the characters can just walk by a sign that says 'marriage counseling center.'” – The thoroughly impressive Simon Rich talking to Co.Create about how he is able to write for so many different mediums and how, when he first started at SNL, he was at one point  fallible.

Food

SNL's Simon Rich Has a Terrible Diet

by | December 6th, 2010

SNL writer and novelist Simon Rich told Grub Street everything he ate for one week, and unsurprisingly he managed to make his food diary as funny an entertaining as everything else he writes. A taste: I eat mostly bomb-shelter food. It's like I'm surviving a nuclear apocalypse that only I'm aware of. My writing partners, Marika Sawyer and John Mulaney, they joke that if I were 10 years old they could call child-protective services to rescue me, but I'm 26, so there's nothing they can do, because technically I'm a grown-up and I have only myself to blame for living this way.

Shouts and Murmurs

Simon Rich Gives God a Girlfriend in The New Yorker

by | January 3rd, 2012

This week's New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs is a very funny piece by SNL's Simon Rich about how Genesis might've gone if God was dating someone. Women be stoppin' omniscient entities from creatin' majestic universes, and all that.

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Simon Rich Takes On Google

by | October 11th, 2010

SNL writer and book author Simon Rich has a piece in this week's New Yorker about Google. Specifically, what Google's dictionary defines certain words as: "Information: A thing that Google makes instantly accessible to anyone for free. And that makes them the enemy? Explain that logic to me."

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