The Areas of My Expertise

By John Hodgman
(Riverhead Trade, Paperback, 9781594482229, 256pp.)

Publication Date: September 5, 2006

Other Editions of This Title: Compact Disc, Hardcover, Compact Disc

Categories: Form - Essays

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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.

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"Wonderfully absurd." - New York Times
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"A book of absurd tall tales, tables and charts spun from the warped brain of John Hodgman...Impressively eclectic." - Los Angeles Times