He’ll read verbatim from the original document, despite the fact that its quality shows he learned to read only days before he wrote it. He says the 50-word news flash is a 5-year-old’s equivalent to the long-form features he now writes for The New Yorker. “The paper was hyperlocal news, and I believe the top story was an incident in which my older brother was chewing gum and blew a very large bubble,” he said. “Oh, but I had a lot to choose from,” he says in an interview last week. After all, it’s hard to believe Rich - the “second-youngest ever comedy writer” at “Saturday Night Live” and an author with five hot-selling books under his belt - has ever crafted, well, crap. He’s a slim fellow in a plaid shirt and dark-framed glasses whose pensive appearance projects no clue of his comic, wickedly wise wordsmith abilities.Īnd an upcoming stint at Regreturature, a Litquake/San Francisco Writers’ Grotto evening at which writers read work they regret having written, is surely a creative caper. His mother, Gail Winston, a HarperCollins executive editor.īut approaching a Telegraph Avenue bistro not far from his Oakland apartment, his literary lineage is incognito. His father is Frank Rich, former New York Times columnist. The 28-year-old writer, whose phoenix has risen meteorically ever since his college days as president of “The Harvard Lampoon” and right up to his most recent gig writing for Pixar, holds a dynasty in his familial hands. OAKLAND - Simon Rich is neither thief nor spy, but he could be.
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