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Staff Reviews
This collection of short stories gave me more pleasure than anything I’ve read in a long time.
Writers often say that the short story is among the most difficult forms to master- there’s no room for any misplaced or imprecise words. An entire body of ideas not stated must be evoked from the bit that is. And there’s no quarter given in depicting a personality- the reader’s understanding must be immediate.
So when I find an entire book of short stories delightful, I get that chill up my spine that tells me I’m reading the work of a great talent.
These stories are funny, biting, introspective, and altogether intelligent.
From the tale of the hare’s obsession with a rematch against the tortoise to a lesson about why wearing a red t-shirt every day is a way to find love, the stories in One More Thing are short masterpieces.
I have a family of sapiosexuals- we are all strongly attracted to intelligence in others. Which goes a long way toward explaining why I wish BJ Novak, writer, actor, executive producer and director of The Office, stand-up comedian, and the author of these marvelous short stories was my next door neighbor. I feel as we’d be great friends.
— Jill
Description
WITH SPECIAL APPEARANCES by Lena Dunham, Jenna Fischer, Mindy Kaling, Julianne Moore, Carey Mulligan, Katy Perry, Jason Schwartzman, Emma Thompson, and Rainn Wilson
B.J. Novak's
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . .
down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake,
One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
