LITERALLY? Hardcover – April 4, 2026

A comedian falls off a ladder.That's it. That's the setup. The punchline is the rest of his life, which—due to the ladder, the spine, and the mirror that was supposed to make the room look bigger—is about one set long.Lying on the floor of his apartment with forty pieces of broken mirror and one uninvited guest, he does the only thing he's ever known how to do: he starts talking. What follows is a final performance for the worst audience imaginable—silent, patient, and not leaving until the show is over.Each chapter is named for a literary device. Each chapter performs the device it's named for. And somewhere around the sacred cows, the muffin economy, and a detective who pins an actual fish to an evidence board, the jokes stop being jokes and start being something else entirely.LITERALLY is a story about a man who spent forty years filling rooms with noise so he'd never have to hear what was in them. It's about the distance between a punchline and the truth. It's about a mirror that broke and finally showed him something.It is, quite literally, a comedy about death.Or a tragedy about comedy.The pamphlet is blank. You'll have to decide for yourself. Read more