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Check out this excerpt of HOW TO SUCCEED IN ACADEMIA by Ross Bullen over at @mcsweeneys mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-na…

How to Be an Old Person: Everything to Know for the Newly Old, Retiring, Elderly, or Considering, by Brian Boone. Are you old, or know an old person? Get this book to show them the ropes and rules of being a coot. amazon.com/How-Old-Person…

Community Pool, by Keith James. Yet another novel about a decidedly evil small town, dream manipulation, and a weird child that results in a profound and personal journey about what it means to be a dad. amazon.com/Community-Pool…

The Humorist Books 2025 Holiday Gift Guide: Here then are a publisher’s dozen books that entertain, elicit laughs, enrich the mind, don’t cost much, ship quickly, and are very easy to wrap. In other words, the perfect gifts for anyone and everyone. (THREAD)

Happy pub day to Robert Criss (@baby___kiss), whose OPTICAL DISILLUSIONS is available now. We think you'll agree that it's the funniest, darkest book of visual puzzles ever assembled… if your fragile brain can even handle it, we mean. amazon.com/dp/1954158424/…

Ross Bullen is a professor AND a writer, so putting him through the gauntlet of “5 Writerly Questions” wasn’t that big a deal since he obviously loves to do homework. humoristbooks.com/6-important-wr…

Read an excerpt of Ross Bullen’s HOW TO SUCCEED IN ACADEMIA (WHILE FAILING AT EVERYTHING ELSE) right here! humoristbooks.com/read-an-exclus…

Considering a career in academia? Already stuck on a tenure path? Allow Ross Bullen to talk you right out of it. The hilariously harrowing and deeply silly HOW TO SUCCEED IN ACADEMIA (WHILE FAILING AT EVERYTHING ELSE) is out now from Humorist Books. amazon.com/Succeed-Academ…

Read an excerpt here! humoristbooks.com/read-an-exclus…