Nick Paumgarten — The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game - with Evan Osnos — at Conn Ave

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Over the past two decades, Nick Paumgarten has become one of The New Yorker's most admired and popular staff writers. He brings to journalism what great novelists bring to fiction: an instinct for character, a respect for complexity, and an eye for the telling moment. The Intangibles is his memoir told through the oddly illuminating lens of hockey. Not a book about hockey, really, but one in which a lifetime of obsessively hanging around the game — as player, parent, son, coach, fan, middle aged white guy in New York, person of privilege, an imperfect man among other imperfect men — provides a vivid and sneaky exotic window into a cultish world that hides in plain sight. It's an alternate realm of aspirational vigor and prolonged boyishness, of plucky brutishness and o…

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