Manhood for Amateurs. Michael Chabon

       Epigraph

       Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.

       – G. K. CHESTERTON

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

[ I ] SECRET HANDSHAKE

The Losers’ Club

[ II ] TECHNIQUES OF BETRAYAL

William and I

The Cut

D.A.R.E.

The Memory Hole

The Binding of Isaac

[ III ] STRATEGIES FOR THE FOLDING OF TIME

To the Legoland Station

The Wilderness of Childhood

Hypocritical Theory

       The Splendors of Crap

       [ IV ] EXERCISES IN MASCULINE AFFECTION

       The Hand on My Shoulder

       The Story of Our Story

       The Ghost of Irene Adler

       The Heartbreak Kid

       A Gift

       [ V ] STYLES OF MANHOOD

       Faking It

       Art of Cake

       On Canseco

       I Feel Good About My Murse

       [ VI ] ELEMENTS OF FIRE

       Burning Women

       Verging

       Fever

       Looking for Trouble

       A Woman of Valor

       [ VII ] PATTERNS OF EARLY ENCHANTMENT

       Like, Cosmic

       Subterranean

       XO9

       Sky and Telescope

       [ VIII ] STUDIES IN PINK AND BLUE

       Surefire Lines

       Cosmodemonic

       Boyland

       A Textbook Father

       [ IX ] TACTICS OF WONDER AND LOSS

       The Omega Glory

       Getting Out

       Radio Silence

       Normal Time

       Xmas

       The Amateur Family

       [ X ] CUE THE MICKEY KATZ

       Daughter of the Commandment

       Other Works

       Copyright

       About the Publisher