"With Attachments, acclaimed nonfiction writer Lucas Mann turns his attention, tenderness, self-reflection and humor to contemporary fatherhood. In essays that resist categorization, he looks closely at all the joys, frustrations, subtleties and contradictions within an experience that often goes under-discussed. At once intimate and expansive, Mann chronicles his own life with his young daughter, but also looks outward to the cultural and political baggage that surrounds and permeates these every day experiences. Attachments examines climate anxiety, the helplessness and resentment of pandemic caregiving, the often toxic internalized legacy of masculinity, and the gender dynamics at play in any public or private act of fatherhood. Mann traces his own cultural obsessions and curiosities, from Brad Pitt to Andy Warhol to superstar athlete fathers like LeBron James, to the men achieving semi-fame making dad jokes on Instagram. He probes the history of the way fatherhood has been depicted in books, movies and television, from Marilynne Robinson's Gilead to Cormac McCarthy to Karl Ove Knausgaard to Tony Soprano. Moving through memoir, lyric essay, literary analysis and pop culture criticism, Attachments treats the subject of fatherhood with the depth, curiosity and vivid emotion that it deserves"--

An Essay about Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So after a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report -- An Approximate Hourly Record of Thoughts and Feelings during a Time of Intense Sleep Deprivation -- An Essay about Watching Brad Pitt Eat That Is Really about My Own Shit -- On Boredom and Vigilance and Addiction and Other Everyday Occurrences -- At the Playground -- Attachments, Wild and Tame -- Dads Being Dudes Making Jokes -- An Inspirational Collective Reflection on Joy, Love, and Responsibility from Some Famous Fathers of Daughters, Both Real and Imagined -- A Fan's Notes from the Domestic Future -- Gratitude Is Just Math -- On the Fantasies of Various Apocalypses -- Summer Diary; or: After Andy Warhol