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Dan Wilbur is a stand-up comic living in Brooklyn, NY. He has written for McSweeney's, CollegeHumor.com, and was a contributor to The Onion News Network. He also hosts a weekly stand-up show called "Lasers in The Jungle" at Luca Lounge in Alphabet City. He has read nearly half of nearly half of all the books he owns.

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Better Book Titles: Children's Book Edition (PHOTOS)

Posted May 6, 2011 | 08:29:11 (EST)

To celebrate Children's Book Week, Better Book Titles would like to save you time by summing up Children's classics. Now, you can avoid any awkward conversations with your child or failure to see the moral of the story by knowing the content of these books beforehand. This slideshow...

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Greek Classics: Better Book Titles

Posted February 22, 2011 | 09:45:24 (EST)

Comedian Dan Wilbur would like to help you understand the Classics. Whether you dabbled in Euripides during college, or spend hours each day reciting Homer in the original Greek, these new titles will trim the fat and reveal whole stories in a single image! The great works of...

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Better Book Titles: Giving Controversial Books A Makeover

Posted October 1, 2010 | 08:05:36 (EST)

In honor of Banned Books Week, Dan Wilbur of Better Book Titles came up with alternatives for some of the most frequently challenged books out there.

"Lolita," for instance, is now "Likable Rapists." It makes you think that perhaps these new titles are what...

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Better Book Titles: Steig Larsson, Malcolm Gladwell, Virginia Woolf Get A Jacket Makeover

Posted August 17, 2010 | 07:50:34 (EST)

Comedian Dan Wilbur is sick of reading. But he's come up with a fantastic solution for people who still would like to be part of literary conversations without expending all that energy that goes into sitting down and reading a book. Better Book Titles is for...

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