Humor and Satire Writer | Professor | Writing Center Director | Nice Lady
My New Book Is Available to Pre-Order
Beloved stories from folklore, mythology, and literature, transformed into irreverent satire of university staff and faculty's everyday challenges.
Perfect gift for the professor, college staff member, or grad student in your life.
Out August 2026 from the University of Toronto Press.
“Pre-Order” button brings you to bookshop.org page, but you can get it anywhere—B&N, Amazon, your local bookstore!
Eu-forty-a: If The Characters In Euphoria Were In Their Forties, Slackjaw
You Can Complete Our Online Degree Program in the Time It Would Take You to Read This Article, McSweeney’s
10 Steps to Becoming the Perfect People-Pleaser (co-written with Viktoria Shulevich), The Belladonna
Son, It’s Time Your Mother and I Pivoted from Being Your Parents to Being an AI Company, Points in Case
If Every Congressman Facing Credible Rape Allegations Resigned, We’d Have No One Left to Run the Country, McSweeney’s
Despite This Terrible War, We Must Never Lose Sight of the Value of Each and Every Shipping Container, McSweeney’s
Most Recent
The New Yorker
Lean the F*ck Out
Talia thinks it is a bitter, acerbic takedown of rampant hustle culture. Her editor says it is a “breezy, joyful manifesto.” Who’s right? I don’t know; you should find out for yourself!
About the author
Talia Argondezzi has written for McSweeney’s, The New Yorker, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Slackjaw, and many other places, because she is a middle child and it’s the only way she could think of to get her parents’ attention. She teaches at Ursinus College. Her friend’s baby is cropped out of this picture. She’ll get around to having a real author photo taken soon.
