Manhood for Amateurs

Manhood For Amateurs 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."^[1] The collection was nominated for a 2010 Northern California Book Award in the Creative Nonfiction category.^[2] 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

1. Thornton, Matthew (June 1, 2007). "Chabon Signs Again with HC". PW Daily. Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on July 3, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2009.
2. "2010 Northern California Book Award Nominees". The San Francisco Chronicle. March 7, 2010.

External links

• Michael Chabon and Manhood for Amateurs on NPR's All Things Considered