Steven Wright is 67 and says he performs less these days. The book’s central metaphor is a description of Harold’s thought process as a room with one window and a riot of birds flying around.

Wright’s debut novel, “Harold,” is largely an effort to transpose his stand-up sensibility to fiction.Plotwise, very little happens. Its title hero is a 7-year-old boy attending his third ...

Steven Wright, king of laconic one-liners, wrote the delightfully loopy novel "Harold" because he wanted to break free of stand-up's "very narrow window of creativity." News. Home Page ; ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save “I'm just trying to make them laugh,” says Steven Wright. “I don't focus on emotion.” The 68-year-old comedian and actor, who’s built a career on setting the ...

This is Steven Wright’s 12th professional season. During that time he has been traded for Lars Anderson, pinch run for David Ortiz and, on Sunday night, thrown two innings, ...

Steven Wright was selected to the 2016 All-Star Game. However, Wright likely won’t be remembered for that once his baseball career ends. Or the fact that he was a knuckleballer, ...

Steven Wright is a word guy, not a numbers guy. Every now and then, though, a number hits home, like when he was amazed to realize he had been performing comedy for 10 years. In two years, he said ...

Steven Wright’s lethargic vocal demeanor and nearly catatonic comedic delivery is no act. And if observing him perform his uniquely deadpan style of comedy lazily laced with non-sequiturs, one ...

Wright’s oldest friends are still awed by his one-of-a-kind, all-encompassing sense of humor. Eddie Brill met him when both were attending Emerson College in the late 1970s.

Steven Wright : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn If you ask just about any alternative comic from the last twenty years to name their influences, one name you're sure to see come up is Steven Wright ...

For years, Craig Steven Wright, an Australian cryptocurrency enthusiast, claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Then the courts got involved.

The debut novel from legendary stand-up comedian Steven Wright, Harold is about the kaleidoscopic mind of an ever-curious 7-year-old boy in the ’60s as he floats through his day; his rollicking ...