Manhood for Amateurs
{{Infobox book
| author = Michael Chabon
| isbn = 9780061490187
| pub_date = October 6, 2009
| publisher = HarperCollins
| image = File:Manhood_for_Amateurs.png
}}
{{Short description|Book by Michael Chabon}}
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Manhood For Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son is a 2009 collection of essays by the American writer Michael Chabon.{{Cite book |last=Chabon |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TosAQAAIAAJ |title=Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son |date=2009-10-06 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-149018-7 |language=en}}
Collection
The complete title of Chabon's collection is Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son. As the writer explains, the work discusses "being a man in all its complexity — a son, a father, a husband."{{cite web
|last=Thornton
|first=Matthew
|title=Chabon Signs Again with HC
|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6448371.html
|date=June 1, 2007
|work=PW Daily
|publisher=Publishers Weekly
|accessdate=July 2, 2009
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703170010/http://publishersweekly.com/article/CA6448371.html
|archivedate=July 3, 2008
|url-status=dead
}} The collection was nominated for a 2010 Northern California Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction category.{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/RVPK1CB26T.DTL | title=2010 Northern California Book Award Nominees | date=March 7, 2010 | work=The San Francisco Chronicle}} This was Chabon's second published collection of essays and non-fiction. McSweeney's published Maps and Legends, a collection of Chabon's literary essays, on May 1, 2008.
Essays
Most of the essays previously appeared in GQ, The New York Times, and others.
Contents
- The Losers' Club
- William and I
- The Cut
- D.A.R.E.
- The Memory Hole
- The Binding of Isaac
- To the Legoland Station
- The Wilderness of Childhood
- Hypocritical Theory
- The Splendors of Crap
- The Hand on My Shoulder
- The Story of Our Story
- The Ghost of Irene Adler
- The Heartbreak Kid
- A Gift
- Faking It
- Art of Cake
- On Canseco
- I Feel Good About My Murse
- Burning Women
- Verging
- Fever
- Looking for Trouble
- A Woman of Valor
- Like, Cosmic
- Subterranean
- X09
- Sky and Telescope
- Surefire Lines
- Cosmodemonic
- Boyland
- A Textbook Father
- The Omega Glory
- Getting Out
- Radio Silence
- Normal Time
- Xmas
- The Amateur Family
- Daughter of the Commandment
References
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External links
- [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113719470 Michael Chabon and Manhood for Amateurs on NPR's All Things Considered]
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Category:2009 non-fiction books
Category:American non-fiction books