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Lads - Dave Itzkoff

By Dave Itzkoff

Release Date: 2004-09-07

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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"What I wanted after college was a job and my own apartment, but what I needed was a good comeuppance, and thatā€™s what I got."

When Dave Itzkoff graduated from Princeton in 1998ā€“the first member of his family to earn a college degreeā€“he expected to be rewarded with a career, and a life, that mattered. Instead, he ended up convinced that he was selling the entire institution of manhood down the river.

After a series of personal and professional experiences stripped him of any lingering sense of entitlement, Itzkoff found himself working as an editor at Maxim, the pugnacious frontrunner in a new breed of menā€™s periodicals dubbed "lad magazines." There, he was initiated into a culture of heavily retouched girlie pictorials, dirty jokes, disingenuous sex advice, and shopping guides for expensive electronic gadgetry. And as Maxim continued its inexorable rise to become the most successful menā€™s magazine in modern publishing history, Itzkoff was left wondering what his workā€“and his lifeā€“really meant.
Lads is the hilarious, heartbreaking story of Dave Itzkoff's efforts to define himself as a man while working at a magazine that was purveying a vision of young manhoodā€“a state of perpetual adolescenceā€“that was seductive to all but viable for none. Lads takes us deep inside one young manā€™s struggle with identity, responsibility, and sexuality, in an unsparingly candid account of how men really relate to one another, as fathers and sons, as employers and employees, as colleagues and friends.

Lads is trenchant. Lads is perceptive. Lads is alarmingly funny. This is an unforgettable debut from a young writer of astounding talent.
 
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Lads - Dave Itzkoff

By Dave Itzkoff

Release Date: 2004-09-07

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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"What I wanted after college was a job and my own apartment, but what I needed was a good comeuppance, and thatā€™s what I got."

When Dave Itzkoff graduated from Princeton in 1998ā€“the first member of his family to earn a college degreeā€“he expected to be rewarded with a career, and a life, that mattered. Instead, he ended up convinced that he was selling the entire institution of manhood down the river.

After a series of personal and professional experiences stripped him of any lingering sense of entitlement, Itzkoff found himself working as an editor at Maxim, the pugnacious frontrunner in a new breed of menā€™s periodicals dubbed "lad magazines." There, he was initiated into a culture of heavily retouched girlie pictorials, dirty jokes, disingenuous sex advice, and shopping guides for expensive electronic gadgetry. And as Maxim continued its inexorable rise to become the most successful menā€™s magazine in modern publishing history, Itzkoff was left wondering what his workā€“and his lifeā€“really meant.
Lads is the hilarious, heartbreaking story of Dave Itzkoff's efforts to define himself as a man while working at a magazine that was purveying a vision of young manhoodā€“a state of perpetual adolescenceā€“that was seductive to all but viable for none. Lads takes us deep inside one young manā€™s struggle with identity, responsibility, and sexuality, in an unsparingly candid account of how men really relate to one another, as fathers and sons, as employers and employees, as colleagues and friends.

Lads is trenchant. Lads is perceptive. Lads is alarmingly funny. This is an unforgettable debut from a young writer of astounding talent.
 
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