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Larry Doyle

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in Camden, NJ, The United States

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http://www.larrydoyle.com

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Thriller

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Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Mark Twain, Flannery O'
Connor, Donald Bar ...more

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December 2008

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Larry Doyle's first novel, I Love You, Beth Cooper, won the 2008 Thurber Prize for American Humor.

His second novel, Go, Mutants!, was named one of the best novels of 2010 by the Washington Post.

Deliriously Happy, a 2011 collection of humor pieces from the New Yorker and elsewhere, didn't win any awards but some people liked it.

The Next One, an e-booklet was released in 2017. It's fate has yet to be determined.

Larry Doyle was a writer and producer of The Simpsons for four years; he wrote the films Duplex, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and I Love You, Beth Cooper. He also wrote a bunch of Beavis and Buttheads, a couple Rugrats and Daria.

He was an editor at the National Lampoon, SPY, and New York, and wrote for Esquire, Rolling Stone, ...more

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	I Love You, Beth Cooper 3.29 avg rating — 7,543 ratings — published 2007 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Done It? by Jon Scieszka (Editor), Libba Bray (Goodreads Author), Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author) 3.23 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fierce Pajamas: Selected Humor Writing from The New Yorker by David Remnick, Henry Finder, Patrick Frederick (Reading) 3.74 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go, Mutants! 3.31 avg rating — 444 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deliriously Happy: and Other Bad Thoughts 2.99 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Huh Huh for Hollywood MTV's Beavis and Butthead 3.83 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Sucks Change It MTV Beavis Butthead 3: This Sucks Change It MTV Beavis Butthead 3 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Next One really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ketogenic Diet: The Ultimate Guide For Rapid Weight Loss, Boost Your Energy And Heal Your Body 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Yorker Volume 84 Number 13, May 12 2008 by Larry Doyle (Goodreads Author), Malcolm Gladwell, Yiyun Li 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Newish Thing

About three years ago, I stopped writing a novel because it felt ridiculous, even for fiction.

It has mostly come true.

It’s a sort of a dark comedy thriller set in an alternate dystopian future in which conspiracy theories have become the lingua franca and people will believe anything. The protagonist is a hapless asshole, based on me, who changed history a tiny bit. For one, Donald Trump is no lo Read more of this blog post »

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“I'm sorry I'm so pathetic," he thought, and then realized he had also said it.

Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach.

Can I tell you a secret?"

Yes, tell me all your secrets Denis kept to himself.

Beth leaned in, whispered: "All boys are pathetic.”
― Larry Doyle, I Love You, Beth Cooper

tags: boys, humour, love

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“Dennis had imagined that he and Beth would be one of those couples who never quarreled, that when they weren't kissing they would be laughing or lying in each other's arms, serenely, deliriously happy. He could never have imagined that she would make him so crazy angry he would scream at her in front of their friends. But in that instant, he learned a little about love.”
― Larry Doyle

tags: i-love-you-beth-cooper, larry-doyle, love

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“Denis could think of no logical reason why he should not attempt to mate with Beth Cooper.

There were no laws explicitly against it.

They were of the same species, and had complementary sex organs, most likely, based on extensive mental modeling Denis had done.”
― Larry Doyle, I Love You, Beth Cooper

tags: humour, love

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