From April 2012: Drew Magary's "Pain Is A Gift, And Other Notes From A Terrified Father During A Seven-Week-Premature Birth," the essay that grew into his new book, Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of 21st Century Parenthood.
We got this email the other day from reader Alex. It's the kind of email we get a lot round these parts:
Okay, that's it for this week. Recap below. Enjoy the book, everyone.
Yeah but you don't want that. I remember when GNR fanboys would change the acronym to GNFR and wear shirts that said GUNS N' FUCKIN' ROSES and it was lame for some reason. Let ME put the FUCKING in there. Don't co-opt it and make a shirt out of it.
And all you get in the sandwich are two air hockey disks. What if BIG CHICKPEA hiding?
I caught a few actual mistakes and there was time to correct them in the final text. But in general, I had re-written and proofed the thing so many times that I had nothing left to change. You could tell me that there's a typo in the book that says HEIL HITLER and I'd be too sick of the book to change it now.
I didn't want to scare off the elderly ladies who inevitably end up attending these reading because they literally go to EVERY reading at the bookstore. "Oh my, that sounds scandalous!"
BRO, I CRUSHED THAT BOWL OF OATMEAL. SO EPIC. FUCKING MASSIVE.
