Jim Mullen has been writing "The Village Idiot," a weekly column syndicated in 600 newspapers around the country for the past ten years. "Now in Paperback " is a selected collection of those columns including fan favorites, "The First Thanksgiving Family Feud" and his take on the James Bond myth in "Learner's Permit to Kill." Mr. Mullen's book "It Takes A Village Idiot" was the runner-up for the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor and his spoof of baby memory books, "Baby's First Tattoo," is in its 15th printing.