Go to a sing-along in a Brooklyn coffee shop, check out a...
Go to a sing-along in a Brooklyn coffee shop, check out a pre-school, hang around at the playground. If no one calls the cops on you for being a creep, you’ll see the same thing everywhere: dads. Dads, dads, dads!
There’s dads like us everywhere these days: changing diapers, pushing strollers, desperately trying to reason with screaming children.
But where are the books for us? Moms have lots of funny parenting books to drink wine to. But most books for dads are either treat us like idiots or they’re full of useful, but boring information.
This book is different. Man vs. Child is about the absurdity of being a dad today: from your blissful pre-baby days through when your kid is off at school, probably talking shit about you. It’s a companion to help you through the hard times, like when you need something to read on the toilet and your phone is dead.
It’s a guide to the really important stuff, like how to dress your baby according to your personal brand and whether you need to make friends with other parents on the playground. It’s a guidebook for smart, funny dads who are still worried about messing up their kid.
I hope you like it. Welcome to the weirdness of parenting.
The book comes out May 9th. You can pre-order it from these fine booksellers:
Amazon
“Doug Moe has written a delightful and helpful book that gives real advice about the Wild West world of raising children.”
- Amy Poehler, actress, comedian, and New York Times bestselling author of Yes Please
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“Thankfully for new fathers like me, Doug Moe knows it all, from little kids doing pee-pee to big kids doing homework. It’s essential reading for dads and future dads.” - Michael Showalter, writer/director and cocreator of Wet Hot American Summer
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“Doug Moe is the second-best father I know. Even if the only thing you get from this book is a good time, then Doug has done more for fathers than any other book of its kind.” - Rob Corddry, actor and comedian, The Daily Show and Ballers
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“I am about to have a baby and I am terrified and feel like an idiot! Then I read Doug Moe’s Man vs. Child! Now, I am prepared to have a baby. I am slightly less terrified and I am still an idiot! Thanks, Doug!” - Bobby Moynihan, actor and comedian, Saturday Night Live
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“Hurry up and buy this book! I didn’t get a chance before my baby came and now I’m screwed! Help! I haven’t slept in weeks and now I don’t know what I’m doing! Dammit, Doug, why didn’t you write this while I still had time to read books??” - Rob Huebel, actor and comedian, Human Giant and Transparent
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“Man vs. Child is a hilariously honest look at parenting that even moms can appreciate. I mean, any book that encourages new dads to ‘vacuum and be nice’ is one I can get behind!” - Ilana Wiles, blogger and author of The Mommy Shorts Guide to Remarkably Average Parenting
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“A taught, erotic thriller. This is a smart, dark look at the human condition, our strengths and our weaknesses. Doug Moe has done it again. I did not read this book.”- , actor and comedian, The League
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“Doug Moe is hilarious. I’d read anything he wrote, including this book, which I read and loved. Doug’s writing is funny and irreverent, which could lead one to think he’s a bad dad, and quite honestly, I thought that for years. “That Doug Moe, he’s one tantrum away from ‘going out for a pack of cigarettes’ and never coming back,” we used to think and not say. But then his wife seemed to be sticking around, and she seems chill, so you gotta think he’s probably OK. Shady dude, though.“ - Jon Daly, actor and comedian, Kroll Show
Doug Moe is a longtime teacher and performer based at the legendary Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and has appeared in such television shows as Inside Amy Schumer and 30 Rock. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Get the full scoop here.
Feel free to email me here if you want to talk. For media and publicity inquiries and interview requests, please contact Jennifer Bastien at jbastien@abramsbooks.com.
