About the Author

Larry Doyle goes by thelarrydoyle on Facebook, Twitter, and in real life. Too much information about him is available at larrydoyle.com.

Reviews

"An instant classic, right up there with great end-of-school landmarks like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused." - Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of LITTLE CHILDREN"An ambitious, goo-covered treat." - The Onion"A dizzyingly diverse and consistently hilarious body of short humor pieces originally published in a variety of publications, making a case for the former Simpsons scribe as one of the premier practitioners of the form....An unpredictable, unfailingly intelligent demonstration of a unique wit given free reign." - Kirkus Reviews"Doyle's third book, Deliriously Happy...collects Doyle's humorous essays from The New Yorker, National Lampoon, Esquire, and elsewhere. His scenarios often feature characters who are in fact deliriously--or delusionally--happy." - The Onion A.V. Club"Delightful -- letter-perfect literature parodies, absurd tabloid-rag quizzes, and a slew of other unlikely stylistic landings stuck." - Flavorpill"Larry Doyle's nervy, off-the-wall, often naughty, always hilarious essays will make you Deliriously Happy." - Vanity Fair"Flagrantly funny . . . Larry Doyle gies the coming-of-age novel a swirly." - Vanity Fair"The book is great. Those among us who will forever self-identify as recovering high-school outcasts . . . will delight in this dark, absurdist, insandely funny send-up of a John Hughes movie. . . . Buy it." - New York magazine"Fresh, sweet, seriously funny." - Newsweek"No matter the subject, Doyle can be trenchant, funny, esoteric, and unpredictable." - Publishers Weekly"Dark, funny, strange, funny, angst, funny. Sometimes we felt bad for laughing. But we did it anyway." - Huffington Post, 11 Books You Need to Know About"In part a loving homage to and in part a send-up of '50s sci-fi, "Go, Mutants!" is one of the funniest books of the summer." - San Francisco Chronicle"Go, Mutants! is a fast, frenetic read crammed to the nictitating membranes with fun-to-spot references to classic science-fiction films. Dizzily high-concept it may be, but Doyle knows what he's doing with his central metaphor: By putting the alien in alienation, Go Mutants! hits on something true about the loneliness -- and the creeping terror -- that is adolescence." - NPR.org"Very funny. . . Go, Mutants! moves at faster-than-light speed. If Earth ever needs an Interplanetary Humor Ambassador, Larry Doyle's the guy." - Washington Post, Best Book of 2010"Gleefully clever and adroitly sweet." - USA Today