
How to Be a Man
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From strip clubs to the Academy Awards to the basketball court—a ride through the landscape of guyhood.
Acclaimed fiction writer Thomas Beller digs deep into his own history in this humorous and insightful collection about the state of masculinity. With sharp and engaging eloquence he discourses on T-shirts; being your mother's date at the Academy Awards; life at a bagel factory; the irrational pleasures of old American cars—and the mysterious disappearance of the author's own particular vehicle from a street in downtown Manhattan; love, sex, and breakups in an office environment; the social ecology of street basketball—including the sudden peril befalling a particular court in Manhattan and the heartwarming efforts of previously disparate community members to save it; coaches; the death of a parent; getting over J. D. Salinger; and an attempt to build a complicated piece of furniture for a beloved. Through stints as a bike messenger, a drummer, a boyfriend and—possibly, potentially, finally—a husband, Beller writes about the life-changing effects of love and marriage—past, present, and future.More details
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- Intro
- ALSO BY THOMAS BELLER
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- CONTENTS
- MANHATTAN ATE MY CAR
- THE COSTUME PARTY
- MOTHER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD
- CHEMISTRY SET
- THE DRUMMER
- THE BIRTHDAY SUIT
- PORTRAIT OF THE BAGEL AS A YOUNG MAN
- THE PROBLEM WITH T-SHIRTS
- A BIKER IN THE CITY
- TURTLES IN NEW YORK
- THE BREAKUP
- THE TRYOUT
- ADDICTED TO LOVE
- THE LAST DAYS OF SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
- SCENES FROM A PLAYGROUND
- A BIKE MESSENGER IN THE CITY
- STRIP CLUB
- A CAR IS NOT A CASTLE
- WALKING THE DOG
- THE FLOATING ARMOIRE
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