Alfred A. Knopf
hardcover

2004

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Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category

by Dave Eggers

The fine people of McSweeney's have put together a preposterously funny collection that offers such useful information as: "How Important Moments in My Life Would Have Been Different If I Was Shot Twice in the Stomach," "Circumstances Under Which I Would Have Sex with Some of my Fellow Jurors," and "Pirate Riddles for Sophisticates," to name just a few. Many legislators and people like that have said that it's best when collections like this are not "all humor." We have thought about this, and thus Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans also includes selections for the more serious-minded reader, including: "The Ten Worst Films of All Time, as Reviewed by Ezra Pound over Italian Radio," "On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor," and "Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring DVD (Platinum Series Extended Edition) Part One." A consistently hilarious selection of brainy, wild humor from one of America's most popular literary magazines.