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Greg Olear
GREG OLEAR, a creative writing professor at Manhattanville College, is the author of the novel TOTALLY KILLER (Harper, 2009), now available in French (Éditions Gallmeister).His second novel, FATHERMUCKER (Harper, 2011), concerns a day in the life of a stay-at-home dad; he describes it as "Ulysses... show more

GREG OLEAR, a creative writing professor at Manhattanville College, is the author of the novel TOTALLY KILLER (Harper, 2009), now available in French (Éditions Gallmeister).His second novel, FATHERMUCKER (Harper, 2011), concerns a day in the life of a stay-at-home dad; he describes it as "Ulysses by way of Us Weekly."He is the senior editor of The Nervous Breakdown and the founding editor of Fathermucker: The Blog (fathermucker.com).Please follow him on Twitter (@gregolear), friend him on Facebook, add him to your innermost Google + circle, visit his website (the cleverly-URLed gregolear.com), and, if it's not too much trouble, compose a Miltonic sonnet in his honor.
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ellaminnowpea
ellaminnowpea rated it 13 years ago
I feel bad, because I really wanted to like this book but I think I was ultimately just the wrong audience. Olear tells a day in the life of stay-at-home dad Josh, whose wife Stacy is out of town on business. One of the women in his kids' playgroup suggests that Stacy might be having an affair, and ...
florinda3rs
florinda3rs rated it 13 years ago
The suburbs of the Northeast have been fertile domestic-fiction territory for decades, but Greg Olear’'s view of that landscape in Fathermucker, his second novel, is thoroughly contemporary. As many others have before them, Josh and Stacy Lansky left New York City for the Hudson Valley once they sta...
Jessica (HDB)
Jessica (HDB) rated it 13 years ago
Josh Lansky is a SAHD. Yep. That stands for Stay-At-Home-Dad, but lets just say that it isn't the only thing that acronym implies. Fathermucker is just the best kind of novel. It's a fictional story, but one that so many people will connect with! Mothers, fathers, people who aren't even parents but ...
Raging Biblioholism
Raging Biblioholism rated it 13 years ago
A great second novel from Mr. Olear (albeit still stuffed overmuch with pop culture references.....) about modern fatherhood. I read this book and felt tied into the great continuum of males on this planet - from youth to adolescence to adulthood to fatherhood and beyond, there are certain truths t...
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