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- David RothschildInterview
I love collections of short stories. It is trite, but besides The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain, Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut. And, as a kid The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, World According to Garp by John Irving, and The History of…
- Best Books For Aspiring ComediansReading list
Vonnegut’s collection of short stories is just a great study in focus, succinctness and sly social commentary. It’s not his best work, but it reveals the broad range of potential for stories of all kinds.
- Jeff KreislerInterview
Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy by Jay Sankey. The Man with the Black Coat: Russia’s Literature of the Absurd by Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut.
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