Jun 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 pm
My Father’s Book
My father has a new book, titled A Happy Marriage, his first novel in over a decade coming out in about a month. It made The Wall Street Journal’s list of recommended summer reading and there’s an excerpt available on the WSJ website.
Check out the excerpt and pre-order your copy here.
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June 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I hope he doesn’t eschew copy editing the way you do, MattY. “My father a new book” – He is a new book? He fathered a new book?
Anyway, good luck to your dad!
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
It’s an abbreviation for “May you father a new book.”
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
shameless
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
My father a new book. Myself no verbs.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm
How is your father a writer, and you never learned how to spell? I have an excuse, I come from a long line of engineers, doctors, and scientists. Fortunately, the engineer and doctor genes balance perfectly. My handwriting is so bad you wouldn’t notice that I can’t spell.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
My grandma a baby stroller, my father a new book. It’s a Jewish thing.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Congratulations to your father!
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
I can cope with the plug, and even the atrocious grammar, but the Amazon affiliate link is a bit cheeky.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
MattY’s a writer.
His Dad is a writer.
Are there any other Y writers?
It’s clear that there isn’t a single editor in the family.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
There are a bunch of authors in Yglesias’ family, I believe, both fiction and non-.
If I were Matt, I’d adopt the stance that a surprising number of elite mathematicians are, at best, mediocre when it comes to mental arithmetic. (Unless that’s something of a myth, but I believe I’ve read some concrete examples.)
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
How’s his ornthograffy?
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
“Fearless” scared my wife to death. She won’t even let me have it in the house.
High praise. Good luck with the new book.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Do you read your father’s books? Is that weird? I imagine you’d have to compare his fiction to elements of his biography and/or psyche, and that that would be pretty weird.
Sorry for the personal question, but I just read My Life as a Man by Philip Roth, which dealt with a lot of related questions, and a good friend of mine isn’t allowed to read his mother’s semi-autobiographical novels, which I think makes sense.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Never read the novel, but Fearless is a terrific film.
It turns out that the orthographically corrected title of the new book is “A Crappy Carriage”, and the work is a meditation on the deterioration of posture during midlife.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
And I thought his father wrote CheerLess.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
“A Happy Marriage” — obviously it must be fiction!
How about having your dad do a guest blog?
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Yes, but what about the copyright in 50 years? =p
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pm
If I were Matt, I’d adopt the stance that a surprising number of elite mathematicians are, at best, mediocre when it comes to mental arithmetic. (Unless that’s something of a myth, but I believe I’ve read some concrete examples.)
This is actually pretty true in a lot of ways. Part of it is that computers and calculators do a lot of the arithmatic for you. Part of it is the once you start dealing with high level math you stop caring about the arithmatic as much. I only have a math minor, but I certainly observed that a sizeable number, maybe as much as 20%, of the students in my higher level math courses were this way.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I believe the full title is “A Happy Marriage –and Then the Fat Kid Came Along”
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I really like “Death and the Maiden” and “From Hell” and absolutely love “Dark Water” – as regards the latter, alright, me having had a bit of a crush on Jennifer Connelly ever since “Once upon a Time in America” might have something to do with it, but it’s only one of many reasons.
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
If we don’t buy the book is the dog a goner?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Natlamp73.jpg
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:46 pm
“I’d adopt the stance that a surprising number of elite mathematicians are, at best, mediocre when it comes to mental arithmetic.”
Well, I’m not an elite mathematician. But I can do calculus in my head with ease, and still can’t add two two-digit numbers without a calculator. People approach math in different ways, and I do it through visualization of trends. I have a friend who does it with musical chord progressions. He actually plays equations on his guitar. Whatever works, I guess.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I’d read it, but since I know the story of one happy marriage, I know them all.
June 4th, 2009 at 1:30 am
I just went to Amazon and it says:
“Out of Print–Limited Availability” so I think you’ve done too good of a job of publicizing, Matt! You totally owe me a copy. Thanks
June 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Look up Jose and Helen Yglesias, who were Matt’s paternal grandparents. Take particular note of Tristan and the Hispanics, which I thought was pretty funny, and which isn’t really/i> about Matt, having been written back in the 80’s.
Matt’s father dropped out of school at age 14 upon publication of his precocious first novel, about a brilliant young boy who drops out of school at age 14. Helen then published a book about being the mother of a brilliant young boy who drops out of school at age 14 . . .
June 4th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Just checked your pops in the library database to see that he wrote a screenplay that was turned into a film that Jane Hamsher made? From Hell? Is that his? Small bloggy world if so!