New collection of short essays from the burst of brilliance behind the Fool’s Gold column.

Few challenges are greater than navigating the world as a so-called adult. Yet Zach Hively does his best to evade them all.

The perils of rental housing? Finding friendship as a hermit who rather dislikes people? Bears? There’s nothing he can’t talk his way through—or out of—in these short essays.

Call Me Zach Hively Because That Is My Name assembles, if not the best, at least the bulk of the long-running and (somehow) award-winning columnist and essayist, known as “an authentic humorist, a rare beast” (V. B. Price).