the most awkward man on this boat
robert gressis
RA philosophy professor. His mother-in-law. A five-day Royal Caribbean cruise to Ensenada. What could go wrong?
Almost nothing, as it turns out—and that's the problem.
Robert Gressis boarded the Navigator of the Seas expecting to write a scabrous meditation on the floating gluttony of cruise culture, the kind David Foster Wallace pioneered three decades ago. Instead, he learned to play pickleball, made friends with twenty-something pest-control salesmen, and had a really good time. Then he had to figure out what to do with that.
The Most Awkward Man on This Boat is a short, funny, footnote-festooned travelogue about how an overeducated neurotic discovered that being a normal person doing normal things is, in fact, totally okay.
The most awkward man in japan
robert gressis
Rob Gressis is a philosopher, a veteran world traveler, and an international man of obviousness. But there’s one thing he hasn’t done: an all-frills trip to Japan. With his wife. Laugh until you cry, and cry until you stop as you travel along with Rob from business class to a basement bar, a religious awakening to professional wrestling, a Michelin-starred sushi bar to a monkey park. Many such places. Most exciting of all, though, you get to tour Rob’s psyche, which is like Japan itself, but has a lot more rules. This will be the funniest (not an exaggeration) book of philosophy (an exaggeration) you’ll ever read.
The second most awkward man in spain
This time, Rob is in Spain with Franklin, a more successful but long-suffering childhood friend. Enjoy more anxieties, musings, silly jokes and learn even less about Spain than you knew before. This will be the second funniest (not an exaggeration) book of philosophy (an exaggeration) you’ll ever read.
about robert
Rob is a professor of philosophy at California State University, Northridge. His professional interests include Kant’s religion, business ethics and professional mediocrity. He enjoys Bengals football, Dungeons & Dragons, and professional wrestling. He lives in southern California with one wife, one son, and one cat. The cat’s interests also include professional mediocrity.
