There's something for every guy in this collection of stories, mini-memoirs, advice, poems, comics and drawings chosen by readers on the Guys Read web site.
Mark receives catalogs. Not just any catalogs, but the most obscure toy catalogs he has ever seen. And then on a whim he decides to order from one of them. Action figures. Maybe he should have thrown the catalogs away, because now he has his hands full- and there are no refunds and no returns.
A collection of works from male authors, illustrators, cartoonists, and editors that features selections from Neil Gaiman, Bruce Hale, Stephen King, Gary Paulsen, David Yoo, and many more.
Examines the trend for males to resist taking on adult responsibilities until their late twenties or thirties. Covers research on three generations to note shifting attitudes and behaviors.
Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter, but nineteen years later, when he is the Mayor of Casterbridge, his past is brought back to haunt him, when they return, and his success is undone.
Looks at how attitudes held by American men about body image have changed since the 1970s; discusses what men are doing to themselves in an effort to look good; and examines the cultural, social, and economic reasons why men have fallen into the beauty trap.
The life of young Claude Rawlings, the son of an eccentric taxi-driver mother, is changed forever in the 1940s when a local music store owner discovers the boy is a piano prodigy.
