More Information Than You Require

Author(s): John Hodgman

Culture

In 2005, The Daily Show's 'resident expert' published his first volume of fake trivia and made up facts, The Areas of My Expertise (Riverhead, 2007). Virtually overnight, John Hodgman was whisked from tweedy obscurity to the high ether of minor celebrity. Like its predecessor, More Information That You Require consists of brief articles, overlong lists, frighteningly complex charts and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes.

General Information

  • : 9781594483646
  • : Penguin Putnam Inc
  • : Riverhead Books,U.S.
  • : 0.349
  • : 25 November 2009
  • : United States
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : John Hodgman
  • : Paperback
  • : 818.5402
  • : 656
  • : illustrations

More About The Product

John Hodgman lives in New York City, where he curates and hosts "The Little Gray Book Lectures," a monthly colloquium of readings, songs, and dubious scholarship. He is a contributing writer at "The New York Times Magazine" and a frequent voice on public radio's "This American Life." Further fiction, nonfiction, and genres in between have appeared in "The Paris Review," "McSweeney's," "One-Story," and "The Believer." He has performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, as well as on the great stages of Chicago, Philadelphia, and London's Barbican.