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Jerry Stahl

Old Guy Dad

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OG (Old Guy) Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the proverbial autumn of his years, or at least the pre pre-autumn, discovers his girlfriend is pregnant. And having a baby. Whereupon hijinks, cosmic and mundane, ensues. A collection of celebrated columns on The Rumpus with new material and never-before-told tales, OG (Old Guy) Dad is Jerry Stahl at his finest and most domestic.
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140 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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  • Татьяна Юхтимовскаяhas quoted5 years ago
    “To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
    —Christopher Hitchens
  • Татьяна Юхтимовскаяhas quoted5 years ago
    Here’s a chestnut: if you’re tired of thinking about yourself, have a child. On a good day, guilt and fear trump self-obsession; on a bad one, you can enjoy them all while singing the hits from Frozen.

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