{"product_id":"the-intangibles-nick-paumgarten-9780593492970","title":"The Intangibles: Friendship, Fatherhood, and the Love of the Game","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited first book by the award-winning New Yorker staff writer -- a memoir that uses his lifelong obsession with the game of hockey as a prism into a sharp, witty, and entertaining exploration of masculinity, of boys and men, and of sons and fathers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the past two decades, Nick Paumgarten has become one of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's most cherished 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. What Paumgarten has never done--until now--is write a book. \u003ci\u003eThe Intangibles\u003c\/i\u003e is his memoir told through the odd but vivid 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaumgarten both explores and undermines some of the mythologies of manhood and sport, while creating a fresh, rich, honest, and funny portrait of men at play--the kind of male play of such outsize personal and group importance that it defies logic, age, orthopedics, and the responsibilities of grown-up life. For all its entertainment and humor, however, \u003ci\u003eThe Intangibles\u003c\/i\u003e also reveals a shadow world that is both shocking and commonplace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough he rarely plays anymore, Paumgarten still cherishes the game of hockey. In many respects, \u003ci\u003eThe Intangibles\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to the game--and a razor-sharp, original, and mordant anthropology of its participants and their earnest strivings--by one of our finest writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Paumgarten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593492978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593492970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs","brand":"Nick Paumgarten","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460341346559,"sku":"9780593492970","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_409e1aaa-732c-4dd6-bee5-302778a06328.jpg?v=1777414112","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-intangibles-nick-paumgarten-9780593492970","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}