Simon Rich is the author of What In God's Name and Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations. He was the youngest person ever hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live. He's a frequent contributor to The New Yorker.

Holy Cow

The writer Simon Rich, the author of the new novel What in God’s Name, which depicts the Almighty as a retiring CEO, picks his favorite impious, sacrilegious, ungodly books, including by Philip Roth and Douglas Adams, and a lost, scathing gospel—all in good fun.