There are any number of reasons to dislike Simon Rich: At 26, he’s a published author, writer for Saturday Night Live and The New Yorker and can call famed New York Times columnist Frank Rich “dad.” Oh, there’s also the fact that his first novel, Elliot Allagash , hasn’t even been out for a year and is already earmarked for big-screen glory thanks to Academy Award nominee Jason Reitman. Ugh! There’s just one reason to not want to smack Rich upside the head: He’s really, really talented.
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