Review
Lucas Kavner
HUFFINGTON
09.23.12
Apocalypse
Later
By
Lucas
Kavner
THOMAS JACKSON/GETTY IMAGES
HuffPost arts &
culture reporter
S
IMON RICH IS probably the funniest writer working in
America right now. He also might be the most prolific
young person in the history of time. One of those sentences
is a hyperbole, but both, at times, feel genuinely true when
you consider what Rich has put out in the last few years.
Before Rich turned 25 he was already publishing essays
in The New Yorker and books of satire, which parlayed
into jobs writing for Saturday Night Live and touching up
screenplays for Pixar. Now the guy’s already on his second