It's Funny Until Someone Loses an Eye (Then It's Really Funny)

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This collection of stories by Kurt Luchs pursues its comedic quarry with the ruthlessness of a pussycat trying to get out of a cardboard box. Luchs who has written for august literary organs such as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The Onion</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The New Yorker</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>McSweeney's Internet Tendency</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> and even been published by some of them is an inspired comic writer in the tradition of P.J. Wodehouse S.J. Perelman and Woody Allen for whom not only the world but language itself is a source of constant delight. Even the hilarity he generates is not an end in itself; the convulsing diaphragms of his laughing readers are in his hands a remotely operated musical instrument bridging the woodwind and percussion sections. </span></p>