Lorrie Moore & Other Witty Writers

Fun and funny, witty and wistful, majestic and mundane, and outrageous and completely down-to-earth sums up Lorrie Moore's fiction. Dear Readers, there's a long tradition of funny, witty, and clever writers. Dorothy Parker. Oh, and Oscar Wilde. Let's not forget John Irving, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, George Bernard Shaw, Tom Robbins, Evelyn Waugh, P. G. 'Plum' Wodehouse, Virginia Woolf (she is wickedly funny, really), Douglas Coupland, Terry Pratchett, James Thurber, and David Lodge. But no writer lifts my spirits and makes me laugh out loud more than Lorrie Moore. You'll want to read her sentences out loud to just about everyone, if only to make them laugh and sigh at the same time. Her Collected Stories is out in the U.K. (Here's hoping for a U.S. release soon.) Until then, read any of Lorrie Moore's works. My favorite collection is Like, Life. My favorite passage? I'm not telling.
Margaret Atwood
Douglas Coupland
John Irving
David Lodge
Dorothy Parker
Terry Pratchett
Tom Robbins
George Bernard Shaw
Zadie Smith
James Thurber
Evelyn Waugh
Oscar Wilde
P.G. Wodehouse
Virginia Woolf