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Putting together our end-of-the-year edition always involves some agonizingly hard calls, so today we wanted to share some writing we loved in 2024 that didn’t quite make our final list. This includes pieces from non-humor publications, work by writers who had more than one piece we wanted to include in the end-of-year edition, and more!

After that, we’ve got a couple of recommendations of things we’ve been into lately: a board game, an Italian drink, and a new collection of single-panel cartoons.