Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel KleinThis New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes theyd had in school. Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar has been a breakout bestseller ever since authorsand born vaudevilliansThomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPRs Weekend Edition . Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is a not so reverent crash course through the great

Des Moines

a mistress

From King Arthur and the Round Table to Jonah and the Whale

His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream

political deals

” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs

a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms

his ties to Washington almost seem inevitable

and touching” ( New York Times ) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology—now a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney

a controversial detective known as The Wolf

monstrous egos

to attend Oxford University