Glory Days

Stories

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: John Mulaney

From the Thurber Prize–winning author of New Teeth, hailed as “a triumph of sustained humor” (Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review), comes a hilarious and powerful collection of short stories chronicling the plight of aging millennials. ​
Super Mario turns forty and is forced to “take-a stock” of his life and how “messed up it’s-a become.”

Goliath struggles to control the media narrative in the lead-up to his death match against David, a small, beloved child.

And a long-discarded participation trophy reminisces about the glorious field day in 1993, when he wound up in the arms of a jubilant, asthmatic Simon Rich.

High-stakes and heartfelt, Glory Days mourns the death of youthful innocence and hails the beginning of something approximating wisdom.

It’s weird to laugh this hard during therapy

I should not have listened on my 39th birthday. It made me consider my age, existence, and legacy with equal parts delight, terror, and humility. I will be recommending this to all my elder millennial friends until they are annoyed with me.

Great Audiobook!

With John Mulaney narrating and Simon Rich writing, these hilarious stories are both smart and imaginative from perspectives you don’t expect. A must buy/listen.

Genuinely funny!

The whole collection was funny, but some of these stories were off the chart hilarious! Super relatable in an amusing yet horrifying way

Join his existential crisis

If this author hasn't been a regular on This American Life then they're both missing out. Neurotic, sentimental (but only in very hip self-aware ways), and more than a little time spent in existential crisis mode. These essays are read to perfection by Mulaney.

Mildly Entertaining

The first story cracked me up; so, I was looking forward to the rest of the book. Unfortunately, I did not find the remainder of the stories nearly as entertaining. Some were better than others; but overall, just so-so.