The night shift / Ben Fountain -- The chaos machine / Charles Baxter -- In ten years he's got a chance to be thirty / Jim Shepard -- The job, by the numbers / Clyde Edgerton -- What I can offer / Neal Pollack -- Candy man / Rick Bragg -- Nine times (among countless others) I've thought about the people who came before us in my brief career as a father / Anthony Doerr -- For Ella / Michael Thomas -- Zeke / Davy Rothbart -- Fault / Richard Bausch -- Here comes the sun / Nick Flynn -- Comparative history / Brandon R. Schrand -- Notes from adolescence / Rick Bass -- A year in the life of a homebound wanderer, Master Avery in attendance / Sebastian Matthews -- The sleepwalker / Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Everyone into the bunker! / Steve Almond -- A tale of two fathers / David Gessner -- Eleven thoughts on being the father of eleven-month-old twin boys / Darin Strauss -- Remember the banana / Brock Clarke -- The points of sail / Sven Birkerts.
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Contains twenty essays that explore various aspects of fatherhood, featuring selections from various authors, such as Ben Fountain, Neal Pollack, Rick Bragg, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and others.