One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

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 that 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 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 just that might 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.

Author: B. J. Novak
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 02/04/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.89w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780385351836


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2013 pg. 48
Publishers Weekly 11/25/2013
Library Journal 01/01/2014 pg. 105
Booklist 01/01/2014 pg. 40
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2014
People Weekly 02/17/2014 pg. 56
Entertainment Weekly 02/14/2014 pg. 38
Shelf Awareness 02/14/2014
New York Times Book Review 02/23/2014 pg. 8
New Yorker (The) 03/02/2014 pg. 26
People Weekly 06/02/2014 pg. 60
New York Times Book Review 03/15/2015 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 73
Library Journal 09/15/2013

About the Author
B.J. Novak is a writer and actor best known for his work on NBC's Emmy Award-winning comedy series The Office as an actor, writer, director, and executive producer. He is also known for his stand up comedy performances and his roles in motion pictures such as Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Disney's Saving Mr. Banks. He is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in English and Spanish literature.


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