One More thing: Stories and Other Stories by BJ Novak

Wanted to hate it.  Liked it. Like heavy Steve Martin, or lite Donald Barthelme.

March 2026 - Re-reading it. Still like it, and after now becoming an Office super-fan.

It's a little long - not in pages but in number of stories included, some of which are only a paragraph or two, or a couple lines. The shorter ones just seem like polished jokes in prose form. Some of the longer stories are quite interesting, although the final one, about the poet who becomes a translator and finally just rewrites THE GREAT GATSBY, seems to have been a better concept than story.

Still, I've recommended it to several peopl.