More Information Than You Require

In 2005, The Daily Show’s ‘resident expert’ published his first volume of fake trivia and made up facts, The Areas of My Expertise (Riverhead, 2007). Virtually overnight, John Hodgman was whisked from tweedy obscurity to the high ether of minor celebrity. Like its predecessor, More Information That You Require consists of brief articles, overlong lists, frighteningly complex charts and beguiling narratives on new and familiar themes.