The Intangibles
A Hockey Life: Friendship, Fatherhood and the Love of the Game
$33.29
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
9 November 2026
Summary
The Intangibles is Paumgarten’s 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 provides a vivid and sneaky-exotic window into a cultish world that hides in plain sight.
The Intangibles is also a timely, sharp, and witty exploration of masculinity, of boys and men, sons and fathers, of both the toxic and non-toxic kinds. And a deep, questioning l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529423853 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529423856 |
| Author: | Nick Paumgarten |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 9 November 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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About The Author
Nick Paumgarten
Nick Paumgarten has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2005. Prior to that, he spent five years as an editor and writer at the magazine. He has covered a wide range of subjects, including politics, finance, art, music, food, technology, mountaineering, sports-talk radio, elevators, boxer-bartenders, commuters, and canoes. His work has also appeared in Outside, GQ, Bon Appetit, Men’s Vogue, Powder, Adventure Journal, and The Sewanee Review. He was an editor and reporter at the New York Observer from 1995-2000. He lives with his wife Siv in Manhattan.
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