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Jun 20, 2013 08:46

Reading: Manhood for Amateurs, by Michael Chabon. I love love love Mr. Chabon (sorry, Mary) and I am loving this book. I'm going to buy a copy for a whole bunch of the men I know. Just delightful.

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miocaro June 20 2013, 15:53:13 UTC

June 30th! I thought it wasn't going to be until the end of summer!

h_loves_c June 20 2013, 15:55:35 UTC

Yeah, that's what I thought until last week.

My work life is a never-ending parade of surprises.

miocaro June 20 2013, 15:57:20 UTC

Well, that basically makes you my birthday present!

h_loves_c June 20 2013, 16:29:42 UTC

An excellent way to think of it!!

sarahmarvelous June 20 2013, 16:07:33 UTC

I love that book, and have bought it for a few Dads I know! Chabon went to my high school & grew up in my hometown, so I especially love the essay about growing up there & the comic book club at the interfaith center (where I also attended church, and can totally picture his sad little club). I also love the essay about turning his kids into nerds.

h_loves_c June 20 2013, 16:30:21 UTC

I love him SO MUCH. I love Ayelet Waldman, too. I basically want them to adopt me.

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bilum June 20 2013, 23:29:22 UTC

I dunno, sometimes I have my misgivings about Junot too. Don't get me wrong, I think he's an incredible writer, but I think there are a lot of writers out there who are just as amazing if not more so but have not been as savvy about cultivating an academic audience so aren't getting the critical attention in the same high-prestige venues.

(I mean, I love him, I do. But that time I gave a paper on his work and he was in the audience and then he came up to me afterwards and kissed me and publicly called me fabulous? I think he was working academia there a bit, you know? It was flattering, but it also got him the right kind of critical flattery in my publication.)

bilum June 20 2013, 23:56:37 UTC

This is true. He gives hella props to women of color and really pushes their work in interviews. (And even in his own work -- I always point students to that moment where he has Oscar Wao reading Octavia Butler.)

astronautical June 24 2013, 01:26:51 UTC

lady, you ARE a pretty bird.