“The Unnamed,” the relatively new novel by Joshua Ferris, the acclaimed author of “Then We Came to the End,” was pretty much written specifically for me. It’s about Tim Farnsworth, a well-paid lawyer who works in Manhattan, lives happily in New Jersey with his wife and daughter, and is cursed with a disease that compels …
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A further thought occasioned by last week’s Tantrum, about posting photographs of your kids online. Over the weekend, I shot my usual dozens of photos of pure toddler adorableness. Last night, when my wife’s parents came by, I was showing a couple of them to my approving father-in-law. And he remarked, while chuckling, “This is …
I have seen some strange things this week—a Geronimo statue shaped like a sex toy, a hotel so shabby it seemed haunted—but nothing quite as wrong as the children’s book for sale at the Briarwood Country Club in Sun City West, just outside of Phoenix. I was there to interview J.D. Hayworth, the Republican gunning …
If there’s anything we here at DadWagon must concern ourselves with, it is our incredible fame and the corresponding impact it will have on our children, spouses, and Western Civilization. Let us consider this week on the site in the context of those weighty matters. The Tantrum, as is often the case, was the inspiration …
