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Harrison Scott Key

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Memoir, Humor and Comedy, Nonfiction

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Charles Portis, Epictetus, Solomon the Wise, Bugs Bunny

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Harrison Scott Key is the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the author of three nonfiction novels: How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told (2023), Congratulations, Who Are You Again? (2018), and The World's Largest Man: A Memoir (2015).

Harrison's humor and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, Oxford American, Garden & Gun, Outside, The New York Times, Men's Journal, The American Conservative, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Mockingbird, Salon, Savannah Magazine, Reader's Digest, Image, Southern Living, Gulf Coast, and Creative Nonfiction, as well as a number of magazines that don't pay you anything at all, not even a little, but it was cool, because people who work at magazines ...more

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Average rating: 4.06 · 24,150 ratings · 4,267 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told 4.04 avg rating — 20,056 ratings — published 2023 — 7 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 World's Largest Man 4.24 avg rating — 2,900 ratings — published 2015 — 12 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
	Congratulations, Who Are You Again? 4.02 avg rating — 1,168 ratings — published 2018 — 7 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 World's Largest Man: A Memoir by Harrison Scott Key (Goodreads Author), Tantor Audio (publisher) 4.47 avg rating — 15 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
	My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator 3.11 avg rating — 9 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
	How to Stay Married by Harrison Scott Key (Goodreads Author), Lauren Key (Narrator) 2.50 avg rating — 2 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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“Every marriage is a partnership of two broken assholes with good intentions and varying degrees of ability to deliver.”
― Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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“The South is a strange place, one that can't be fit inside a movie, a place that dares you to simplify it, like a prime number, like a Bible story, like my father.”
― Harrison Scott Key, The World's Largest Man

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“That is marriage, in the end: two of you, being you, warring against the worst parts of you, making space for the best to grow, and learning to see that some parts of your spouse are not your favorite, and letting those parts be anyway. Hating those parts is no grounds for divorce. The only thing worth divorcing, in most cases, is the hatred itself, and your inborn desire to shape the world to your will like some kind of Marvel villain.”
― Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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A World Lost, by Wendell Berry

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Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood, by Drema Hall Berkheimer

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Daughters of the Dust, by Julie Dash

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