The Last Girlfriend on Earth

And Other Love Stories

By Simon Rich (Hardcover Book, 2013)

In "Center of the Universe," God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In "Magical Mr. Goat," a young girl's imaginary friend yearns to become "more than friends." In "Unprotected," an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy's wallet. The stories in Simon Rich's new book are bizarre, funny, and yet...relatable. Rich explores love's many complications-losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it-and turns the ordinary into the absurd. With razor-sharp humor and illustrations, and just in time for Valentine's Day, Rich takes readers for an exhilarating, hilarious ride on the rollercoaster of love.

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- Format: Hardcover Book
- Price: $19.99 US/$21.99 CAN
- ISBN-13: 9780316219396
- On Sale Date: 01/22/2013
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Simon Rich is a graduate of Harvard University. He has written for The New Yorker and was the youngest staff writer at "Saturday Night Live." He is the author of Ant Farm, Free Range Chickens, Elliot Allagash, and What in God's Name, and he has written scripts for Lorne Michaels and Judd Apatow. He currently writes for Pixar.

PRAISE FOR ANT FARM:

"[A] sweet humor collection...Rich loves to end his stories on a momentous, withering realization or snippet of dialogue...the stories tend toward the universal." (Henry Alford, New York Times).