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One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
One More Thing Stories and Other Stories Author:B. J. Novak 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 un... more »ravel 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.
The rematch --
Dark matter --
No one goes to heaven to see Dan Fogelberg --
Romance, chapter one --
Julie and the warlord --
The something by John Grisham --
The girl who gave great advice --
All you have to do --
'Rithmetic --
The ambulance driver --
Walking on eggshells (or: when I loved Tony Robbins) --
The impatient billionaire and the mirror for Earth --
Missed connection: grocery spill at 21st and 6th 2:30 pm on Wednesday --
I never want to walk on the moon --
Sophia --
The Comedy Central roast of Nelson Mandela --
They kept driving faster and outran the rain --
The man who invented the calendar --
The ghost of Mark Twain --
The beautiful girl in the bookstore --
MONSTER: the roller coaster --
Kellogg's (or: the last wholesome fantasy of the middle-school boy) --
The man who posted pictures of everything he ate --
Closure --
Kindness among cakes --
Quantum nonlocality and the death of Elvis Presley --
If I had a nickel --
A good problem to have --
Johnny Depp, fate, and the double-decker Hollywood tour bus --
Being young was her thing --
Angel Echeverria, comediante superpopular --
The market was down --
The vague restaurant critic --
One of these days, we have to do something about Willie --
Wikipedia Brown and the case of the missing bicycle --
Regret is just perfectionism plus time --
Chris Hansen at the Justin Bieber concert --
Great writers steal --
Confucius at home --
War --
If you love something --
Just an idea --
Heyyyyy, rabbits --
The best thing in the world awards --
Bingo --
Marie's stupid boyfriend --
Pick a lane --
"Everyone was singing the same song": the Duke of Earl recalls his trip to America in June of 1962 --