MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS. Copyright © 2009 by Michael Chabon.
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Acknowledgment is made to the following, in which the essays in this collection first appeared, some differently titled or in a slightly different form: Details: “The Losers’ Club,” “William and I,” “The Cut,” “D.A.R.E.,” “The Memory Hole,” “The Binding of Isaac,” “To the Legoland Station,” “Hypocritical Theory,” “The Splendors of Crap,” “The Story of Our Story,” “The Ghost of Irene Adler,” “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Faking It,” “Art of Cake,” “I Feel Good About My Murse,” “Burning Women,” “Verging,” “Looking for Trouble,” “Like, Cosmic,” “Subterranean,” “XO9,” “The Amateur Family,” “Surefire Lines,” “Cosmodemonic,” “Boyland,” “A Textbook Father,” “Getting Out,” “Radio Silence,” “Normal Time,” “X-mas,” “Sky and Telescope,” “Daughter of the Commandment,” and “Subwoofer Submarine”; Vogue: “The Hand on My Shoulder”; the New York Times Magazine: “A Gift”; the New York Times: “On Canseco”; Swing: “Fever”; Allure: “A Woman of Valor”; NYRB: “The Wilderness of Childhood.”
P.S. section “Meet Michael Chabon” essay courtesy of Ben Marcus.
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First Harper Perennial edition published 2010.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Chabon, Michael.
Manhood for amateurs : the pleasures and regrets of a husband, father, and son / Michael Chabon. – 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-0-06-149018-7
1. Chabon, Michael—Marriage. 2. Chabon, Michael—Family. 3. Men—United States—Biography. 4. Husbands—United States—Biography. 5. Fathers—United States—Biography. 6. Sons—United States—Biography. 7. Marriage—United States. 8. Fatherhood—United States. 9. Masculinity—United States. 10. Authors, American—Biography. I. Title.
PS3553.H15Z463 2009
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2009004749
ISBN 978-0-06-149019-4 (pbk.)
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