The Roving I, containing more than 300 pages of my favorite essays (my own), has just been published — hours before the author’s 85th birthday.

A paperback version is now available on Amazon; it will be ready for prime time within days on the Apple and Barnes & Noble sites and many others. That will be followed shortly by a hardcover and an ebook.

The book includes scores of my memories — including my partner earning a slot in my Little Black Book, a woman carrying her sister’s “miracle baby” inside her for nine months, and Robin Williams transforming himself into a talking vagina. Many of my 70 first-person newspaper columns are lighthearted; a handful are weighty.

The Roving I is Weingarten’s third book. My first, Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner’s breast cancer, detailed how i and my wife successfully coped with the life-threatening disease decades ago. My second, Grampy and His Fairyzona Playmates, is a fantasy aimed at 6- to 10-year-olds and was a collaboration of me and my then 8-year-old granddaughter.