Glory Days: Stories

THE BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2024

A hilarious collection of stories about millennials entering the abyss of middle age—from Thurber Prize-winning author Simon Rich. 

"one of the funniest writers in America" —NPR

Simon Rich returns with a batch of can't-miss stories in which Super Mario turns forty and is forced to “take-a stock” of his life and how “messed up it’s-a become.” Goliath struggles to control the media narrative in the lead-up to his death match against David, a small, beloved child. And a long-discarded participation trophy reminisces about the glorious field day in 1993, when he wound up in the arms of a jubilant, asthmatic Simon Rich. 

High-stakes and heartfelt, Glory Days mourns the death of youthful innocence and hails the beginning of something approximating wisdom.

"laugh-out-loud" —People