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.
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." The collection was nominated for a 2010 Northern California Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction category. 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
External links Michael Chabon and Manhood for Amateurs on NPR's All Things Considered