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." 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