“With equal parts nostalgia and snarkiness, this history /anthology celebrates the now legendary satirical magazine during its heyday, when founders and partners Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter ran the show. Former deputy editor George Kalogerakis has collected plenty of stories about minuscule paychecks, ridiculously tight budgets and bacchanalian parties. Certain to be on the holiday wish lists of aging hipsters.” -- Publishers Weekly.
Dis factors 'Me2' comedy for Waters
Walt Disney Pictures has bought a comedy project from screenwriter Larry Doyle titled "Me2," with Mark Waters attached to direct. Waters and his producing partner, Jessica Tuchinsky, will produce via their Watermark Pictures banner. The plot for "Me2" is being kept under wraps, though it is understood to be a time-travel comedy.
Also Larry Doyle played a role in the latter, not quite as funny, years.
The Simpsons Complete Ninth Season on DVD
Check out what Amazon reviewers called “the last season in which one could consider The Simpsons truly great” and the year where “something terrible happened.” It was Larry Doyle’s first year there.
GWB’s Top Secret and Super Cool Plan to Win the War
An Op-Ed by Doyle and son, Los Angeles Times, January 17, 2007
The Book, Judged by Its Cover
“As soon as the internet marketing folks at HarperCollins handed me an ARC of Larry Doyle's new novel for Ecco, I Love You, Beth Cooper, I recognized the cartoony headshot on the cover as the work of Evan Dorkin, one of my all-time favorite comic book artists.”
To YA or Not YA
“Larry Doyle, a former Emmy-winning writer for "The Simpsons" TV series, frequently pens comic pieces for the New Yorker. Although he is 48 years old and has three children, his sensibilities lean to the youthful.
So when Mr. Doyle got an idea for a novel, it wasn't a
stretch for him to write about being a teenager. His book "I Love You, Beth Cooper," which will be published May 8 by News Corp.'s Ecco imprint, opens with a nerdy high-school senior giving a graduation speech. He then veers from his prepared text and declares his love for the school's prettiest cheerleader. The 24 hours that follow are either the best or the worst of his life.”
Harry Potter and Beth Cooper
“Harry Potter 7 isn't going to be the only show in town. This summer is loaded with strong books, booksellers say.
‘It is a spectacular season for book lovers, and literary fiction in particular will take center stage," says Brad Parsons, Amazon's senior book editor.
Love is in the air with three different kinds of novels.
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle (Tuesday) tells of a geeky boy who declares his love during his graduation speech. It made Barnes & Noble fiction buyer Sessalee Hensley ‘laugh-snort through my nose. He so captured the anxiety of the teen years.’.”
The First Fully Interactive New Yorker Piece
Doyle has a humor piece in the May 21st New Yorker that includes a note asking readers visit a series of websites designed to continue the story online -- including a quicktime trailer for a new Reese Witherspoon-Jennifer Lopez movie that doesn’t appear to exist.
Read the story in print, then go to gwynnanddavesharetheirjoy.com, or read the piece online and follow the links from there.
“I Love You, Beth Cooper” is Amazon’s Best of 2007
Number 69,
to be precise