“One more welcome Marxian performance: fascinating truths, offered with wit, and wonderful wit, with truth inside it.”
—Adam Gopnik
“Does laughing out loud make you smarter? Scientists need to study the brains of people right after they’ve read anything by Patricia Marx.”
—Andy Borowitz
“Patty Marx is one of the funniest, smartest people I know. I am pretty sure I have gotten smarter, or at least less stupid, since reading this book. You will too!”
—Roz Chast
“[Marx’s] purpose is to squeeze laughs out of anything and everything she does, or finds out, or screws up. What a brain, and thus what a book.”
—Bruce McCall
“I’ve long had a nagging suspicion that I’m getting stupider by the day. But not until giving myself over to the program put forth in this book—call it ‘Patty Marx’s Bootcamp for the Brain’TM—did I fully grasp the extent of my cognitive decline. I can’t remember most of what’s in it, but I can say that it’s the feel-good read of the season.”
—Meghan Daum
“Both heart and brains… Since one of the meditation techniques mentioned [in LET’S BE LESS STUPID] is laughter, merely reading this book could help your hippocampus feel the burn.”
“Smarten up with Marx’s quizzes, brainteasers, anecdotes, and self-help guides while giving your funny bone a witty workout.”
—Elle
“If you had a conversation with your funniest, smartest friend about your secret fear of losing your mind, this is what it would sound like. Marx’s book is hilarious, engaging, and jammed with wonderfully oddball science, delivered with her inimitable wit. A must-read for anyone who has a brain.”
—Susan Orlean
“Delivers salutary cognitive jolts amid the general hilarity… If you regularly arrive in rooms with no memory of what you were looking for, this one is for you.”
—Nature
“Patricia Marx is my favorite kind of humorist. A funny one.”
—Omnivoracious
“Will amuse, astonish and aggravate you, but it’s also great fun… Worry not. You’ll quickly get with it and by the end, be much smarter.”
—Acadiana Lifestyle