from Amniot

This is a memoir by a hip journalist who marries and becomes a father. His methods for staying hip unfortunately mostly involve buying houses in sketchy neighborhoods, continuing to smoke dope, and leaving his wife and baby for a month to tour with a lousy rock band. A very funny and entertaining...

from eenerd

When I saw the Pete Bagge cover, I had to read this book. But then I read about Neal Pollack, and I thought "meh." But it was much better than I expected it to be. Pollack is a good writer, and it was engrossing to read about the Pollack's struggles with becoming parents. Most interesting was the...

from emily.steed

Neal Pollack strikes me as selfish. As much as I want to like him, and as much as I have in common with him, I can't get over how fundamentally selfish it is of him to decide to take his (in his words) crappy rock band on a month-long road trip, leaving his wife at home with his infant son. After...