Contents

Manhood for Amateurs

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.

Most of the essays previously appeared in GQ, The New York Times, and others.

• 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

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