Wright usually waves away any grand intent behind his work, saying his deadpan style is just how he talks. His old friends back this up. But maintaining a singular view of the world requires effort.

“I'm just trying to make them laugh,” says Steven Wright. “I don't focus on emotion.” The 68-year-old comedian and actor, who’s built a career on setting the bar for the definition of ...

The debut novel from legendary stand-up comedian Steven Wright, Harold is about the kaleidoscopic mind of an ever-curious 7-year-old boy in the ’60s as he floats through his day; his rollicking ...

Comedian Steven Wright's debut novel, ... Its title hero is a 7-year-old boy attending his third-grade class in suburban Massachusetts. It’s 1965, ...

Steven Wright joins the show to talk about the new book and how much coffee he needed to drink to write it. Plus, he gets into his comedy career and how he landed his first stand-up spot on the ...

Comedian Steven Wright has written his first novel, “Harold.” Richard Tilkin. At 7 years old, Harold already has some pretty advanced thoughts. Why, for instance, ...

A popular comedian known for deadpan delivery writes first novel. ... and Harold is a 7-year-old third grader in Ms. Yuka's third grade class at Wildwood Elementary, ... By Steven Wright.

Comedian Steven Wright broadens his palate but preserves his loopy point of view in a new novel, “Harold. ... He’s an old friend of mine and he’s way older than me.

Steven Wright has built a decades-long stand-up comedy career out of telling brilliant, bizarre and biting one-liners such as these. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Harold by Steven Wright - Book review by Jay Richardson. Such is the distinctiveness of Steven Wright's stand-up – the bone-dry, deadpan delivery and the philosophical enquiry of his jokes – that when ...