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The Arizona Wildcat was kind enough to award my book 4 stars, which I assume is not out of 9.

Shelfari on! Check us out at book nerd heaven.

The Internet is alive with talk of how The Office isn't any good anymore.

While Tow Books is dedicated to funny things for people with good senses of humor, sometimes I'm going to just post stuff that I think is worth reading or looking at. This is one of those times.

Not the payoff you're expecting, this time out.

Read an excerpt from Sarah Walker's Really, You've Done Enough at parenting blog collective, Offsprung.com.

Dennis DiClaudio stepped in in a pinch.

An honest to God novelist and college professor bravely admits his private shame.

Blogger, columnist, former male model (really!), Kevin Alexander gets in on the fun.

We celebrated the release of our first Tow Books with a series of embarrassing admissions from many interesting, successful and popular people.It was so much fun, though, we have some more to share this week. First up, Jack Pendarvis, writer. Beard wearer.

In order to celebrate the release of our first two Tow Books title, we're going to humiliate ourselves.

Teddy Wayne probably also wears his Calvins showing above his jeans.

A professor of science, technology and society, blogger, and history of science popularizer, Benjamin Cohen should probably feel shame.

Another future Tow Books author, Chris Monks, admits his terrible taste.

Writer's Digest editor and blogger Brian Klems shares his failure

A tale of romance from Ted Travelstead

Wendy Molyneux, author of our next Tow Books release (about which you will be hearing much more very soon), overshares.

You've seen John Aboud on VH1's "The Best Week Ever," cracking funny with partner Michael Colton. Now you see him in a whole new light.

Mike Sacks...wow.

Roy Kesey, who currently is featured in this year's Best American Short Stories Annual, and is about to release his first collection of short fiction, probably should have kept this one to himself.

Prolific author as well as once and current candidate for political office, Richard Grayson, tells us something that we suspect many are guilty of.

Claire Zulkey hasn't quite grown up.

Pseudonymous adjunct instructor/blogger Oronte Churm misspoke in class

Steve Hosfstetter author of the recently released National Lampoon's Balls really should be ashamed of himself.

Dan Kennedy, author of Loser Goes First admits something about his day job.

M.J. Rose, bestselling author, publishing expert and newly minted Booksense pick for October gets something off her chest.

Pasha Malla, everyone's favorite Canadian weighs in from north of the border.

Weekend America radio host and funnyman John Moe makes a very painful admission and we thank him for it.

We'd say that prolific and outstanding author Stephen Elliott should be ashamed of himself, except that he's not alone in this embarrassing admission.

Comedian Mike O'Gorman admits to something pretty gross.

Ben Greenman, author of the recently released A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both chimes in with his embarassing admission

Sarah Walker, Tow Books author, reveals how we were able to get an embarassing admission from a legendary television writer.

Our first embarassing admission from someone not directly associated with the success or failure (likely) of Tow Books comes from an award winning television writer/producer of such shows as Seinfeld and The Simpsons.

Jason Roeder, one of our debut Tow Books authors makes his embarassing admission.

One of the few commercials for which I'm (strangely) nostalgic.
I'm not saying this kid's square, but he appears to reside in the stockroom of The Matrix and to have summoned "reference books...lots of reference books."

Get psyched, Washington, Sarah's there.

In my old neighborhood in Boston, I might look out my window and see a sorority girl on a wobbly search for just the right place to spit up an evening’s worth of cocktails that tasted like Life Savers. So, in relocating to Astoria, Queens, I was pleased to find myself on a quiet, residential street. I was even happier when an ice-cream truck showed up…

It's true. Writer's Digest editor Maria Schneider wanted my thoughts.

I'll be reading hilarious readings in Seattle and Aspen in October!

This week a clip from the great film, Idiocracy.

The official release of our first two Tow Books titles is imminent, which means it’s time to start the obsessive checking of the Amazon rankings.

This week: a backyard sporting mishap

Our friends from the Great White North get a bit extra at the currency exchange.

This time out the Blurb-O-Matic weighs in on what's hot in non-fiction.

I saw George Saunders read the other night from his new nonfiction collection. He didn’t read very long, and suddenly the Q&A was upon us. There must’ve been at least 75 people at the Barnes & Noble, which only made the clammy silence that followed that much more intolerable. Someone spoke up eventually because someone always does, but I realized that the awkward moment doesn't have to be.

Our latest installment is not for the faint of heart.

Welcome to TOWbooks.com, Tow Interactive, the online, interactive home for TOW Books, funny books for people with good senses of humor.

To make ends meet when I was a baby I did some modelling for the famed Kiwi baby photographer Anne Geddes.

Funny books for people with good senses of humor: The TOW Books Story
By John Warner

Domo arigato, Mr. Reedboto!

Maybe not the scariest artifact from the ’80s (better choices include Phil Collins acting, Starship existing) but here's another strange moment in Lou Reed's otherwise, um, stellar solo career.

You'll find lots of books that attempt to address the themes that mine does. Why do they bother?

As part of our mission to bring the best in humorous entertainment, we begin our weekly series.

Greetings bookseller, book publisher, book publicizer, book agenter, book authorer, or potential book blurber: Thank you for your interest in TOW Books where we're dedicated to providing "Funny Books for People with Good Senses of Humor."

On August 18, 1948, desperate to ease the suffering of unfortunate customers with disabled vehicles, great uncle Allan T. Warner, tow truck king of Tecumseh, Michigan told a joke. The rest is history. Uncle Allan recognized that laughter is indeed the best medicine (unless you have strep throat, in which case you should stick with penicillin). From that day forward, people who needed a tow from Warner Wrecking and Towing were treated to short entertainments, jokes, and yarns, spun by Uncle Allan himself. The rest is history.