Episode 3: The Funniest Books We’ve Read

In this installment, co-hosts Jude and John Lovell discuss some of their favorite funny books and writers, from classics of world literature to more contemporary American titles. Short stories, novels, satires and books that defy classification - the common theme here is that one way or another, these are books that will not fail to entertain... or even inspire!

BOOKS DISCUSSED/MENTIONED/RECOMMENDED IN THIS EPISODE:

From Jude
Current read: Moby , Herman Melville
Funny books: Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes; Skippy Dies, Paul Murray; The Broom of the System, Girl with Curious Hair, Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Next read: Get That N____ Off the Field: The Oral History of the Negro Leagues, Art Rust, Jr.

From John
Current read: Day of the Oprichnik, Vladimir Sorokin
Funny books: Various works by Flannery O'Connor and Mark Twain; The Hitchhiker's Guide and Dirk Gently books, Douglas Adams; Homeland and The Ask, Sam Lipsyte; Pastoralia, George Saunders; Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy; A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Next read: Out Stealing Horses, Per Pettersen

"Parting Gift," short story by Jude Joseph Lovell published by Silver Sage magazine