Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons is a 2018 non-fiction book by American comedy writer Mike Reiss with Mathew Klickstein, with a foreword by Judd Apatow.

[1] Reiss, who thought his career was over at the age of 28 by taking a job writing cartoons, worked on the show's early seasons at the height of "Bartmania".

He found that despite the book's title, Reiss admits in the first chapter that he only has one piece of gossip – the creative feud between Simpsons creator Matt Groening and developer Sam Simon in the show's formative years.

He thought that it was unclear whether the book was supposed to be a Simpsons memoir or one on Reiss's wider career, and found the transitions between the two to be jarring.

"[4] Terri Schlichenmeyer of the Kent Reporter concluded "crumbs from nearly 30 years of “The Simpsons,” fun facts and trivia, reasoning for plots, secrets, and argument-enders for fans, guest-stars, never-beens, and stories of viewers around the world [...] missing “Springfield Confidential,” in fact, is reason to have a cow, man.