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Joel Schwartzberg's The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad is now available as an audiobook. An award-winning humorist, essayist and screenwriter, Schwartzberg has published work in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The Star Ledger, Babble.com and "in the flimsy pages" of regional parenting magazines around the country. ...

(This piece originally ran on Southern Humorists.com. Reposted by permission.) I started the day bouncing around my hotel room on one foot, so guests in the room beneath may have wondered if I'd packed a pogo stick. Jet-lagged and stumbling, I careened into the desk chair that stood between me and the coffee maker. As I hopped madly up and down, I yelled names, not very nice names, names I've privately called editors who've rejected my work. With tears rolling down my face, I plunked down ...