Joel Stein grew up in Edison, N.J., and went to Stanford. From 1997-2017 he was a staff writer for Time magazine, writing a regular humor column and more than a dozen cover stories; he was also the back page columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the opinion section of the Los Angeles Times. He has contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek, GQ, Esquire, the New Yorker, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, the New York Times Book Review, Elle, and Men's Health.
Stein was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton and has appeared as a talking head on television shows such as Real Time with Bill Maher, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and VH1's I Love The '80s. He's interviewed celebrities for HBO, Cinemax, and Comedy Central. In addition to writing on staff for two television shows, he created an animated show for VH1 (Hey Joel) and wrote six network pilots. His 2012 book, Man Made: A Stupid Quest For Masculinity, was a bestseller, and Fox hired him to adapt it as a film script. He has also written for the show American Princess produced by Jenji Kohan -- best known as the creator of Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds and the Netflix series Orange is the New Black.
"A consistently hilarious and surprisingly profound crash course in
manliness... Charming, funny and life affirming" -Kirkus
"Despite his best efforts, I'm not sure if Joel Stein will ever be
a man, but he made me laugh out loud trying in Man Made." --Andy
Borowitz, New York Times bestselling author and humorist
"Feels like what might've happened if you'd sent Woody Allen to
write George Plimpton's Paper Lion...In between all the comedy, the
book is often a perceptive account of how men relate to each other
and a surprisingly tender story about the love that exists between
fathers and sons." -San Francisco Chronicle
"I am the father only of daughters, and so didn't suffer any
existential midlife panic about discovering and demonstrating my
latent manliness. But I am happy Joel did, because his infant son
inspired him to report and write this rare and splendid thing: an
open-minded, open-hearted, bracingly honest, laugh-out-loud-funny
memoir that takes life just seriously enough."
--Kurt Andersen, New York Times bestselling author of Heyday
"If Joel Stein can learn to be a man, a man in the old and rugged
sense of the word, then anyone can. And that's what gives me hope.
What gave me profound and dizzy pleasure, though, was reading this
wild account of how he did it. I dare you to follow him on his
dangerous quest and I double dare you not to laugh." -Walter Kirn,
New York Times bestselling author of Up in the Air
"Joel Stein is one of the funniest writers I've read. An
incredible, hilarious saga of one man's transformation from really
wimpy to just kind of wimpy." -Neil Strauss, New York Times
bestselling author of The Game and Emergency
"Joel Stein's book will make you act in a very unmanly way-you will
spend hours giggling like a 5th grade girl. He writes about
fatherhood and son-hood with great insight, humor and, yes, even
poignancy. It made me proud to share the same basic gender with
him" -AJ Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of
Living Biblically
"Many of us men in the Western world struggle with this "forced
manliness"- there is a lot of pressure. For some, it is a real
struggle. I have seen Joel try to chew tobacco in an attempt to
prove that estrogen does not imprison his body. Looking down at his
lap and bashfully wiping the remnants of spilled tobacco off his J.
Crew slacks did not help his cause. The fact that he laughed at it,
though, did. He caught himself trying to be manly and laughed. That
is a true man." --Zach Galifianakis
"Stein proves himself to be a champion humorist by probing the
serious side of his subject while peppering the paragraphs with
numerous fresh and funny notions."
-Publisher's Weekly
"This entertaining and irreverent memoir will make you laugh out
loud, teach you a surprising amount about various bastions of
American masculinity, and leave you feeling glad that you're not
married to Joel Stein." -Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times
bestselling author of Prep and American Wife
"This is much more than a funny book, though it is that too.
Beneath the humor is a wonderfully poignant exploration of the role
of manliness for the 21st century urban guy. It's also a Father's
Day love letter disguised as a set of adventure tales. Joel looks
lovingly at both his crusty old dad and trusting infant son to
reflect deeply on the lessons that we pass along from generation to
generation. It made me laugh, and think, a lot."
--Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Steve
Jobs
"To man up, Stein goes all Plimpton . . . MAN MADE reminds us of
his wonderful ability to find surprise within a clich� . . .
hilarious."-New York Times Book Review
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