Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Or maybe, “Harold” could only have come from the off-kilter but fertile musings of stand-up legend Steven Wright. Wright, for what ...

Comic Steven Wright can find humor in anything. On a walk near his home in Carlisle, Massachusetts, Wright came upon a Little League baseball team. “I used to play Little League out here,” he said.

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 inner ...

If Kurt Vonnegut and “Calvin and Hobbes” creator Bill Watterson wrote a literary version of “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” they might have concocted an absurdist novel like “Harold.” Or maybe, ...