The marvelous David Rakoff is one of three finalists for this year's Thurber Humor Prize for his hilarious collection Half Empty [[Kindle]], newly out in paperback this week. The New York Times called it brilliant and The Paris Review said it is “tough, suave, dry, and very funny.”
Rakoff's fellow nominees are Mike Birbiglia for Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories
and Rick Reilly for Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Most Outrageous Competition.
Previous winners include David Sedaris, Jon Stewart, and Joe Keenan. Founded in 1997, the prize has never been awarded to a woman.
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