Eddie Small

Eddie Small has been a reporter since graduating from the Columbia University School of Journalism as salutatorian in 2012. His reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal and on WNYC, and he works at Crain's New York. He has been a humorist for more than a decade, regularly contributing to The New Yorker, McSweeney's and The Onion. Several of his more recent humor pieces focus on being a new parent, such as "Welcome to Our Daughter's First Birthday Party, Which is Totally All About Our Daughter!", which appeared in The New Yorker, and "Things to do in a Hotel Room After Your Child Falls Asleep at 7:30 p.m." which was published in McSweeney's. The tone of the book is quite similar to those pieces.

HOW TO BE A DAD (Nonfictiion, Humor)

Millennials are killing babies. Or so the headlines go, adding baby raising to the large host of industries that Millennials seem to be killing. Despite this murderous rampage, though, plenty of Millennials still seem to be having kids. Eddie Small is one of them. In his new book, Small tackles what it is like for Millennials to start becoming fathers and raising children. Having had his first child in April 2022, Eddie penned HOW TO BE A DAD to be a humorous and exaggerated version of what they've gone through as new parents.

Formatted in a "how-to" style, each chapter tackles a different aspect of raising a child as a new parent, particularly a new dad. Hence, it carves out a bit of a niche for itself, given that there are relatively few fatherhood books out there, despite the fact that studies show Millennial are far more involved fathers than previous generations and the fact that more Millennial men than ever choose to be stay-at-home dads or at the very least to take proper paternity leaves. Overall, though, the book will aim to capture what it feels like for Millennials to decide to start raising children against the backdrop of a world that feels like it could collapse at any moment due to a pandemic, climate change or your inability to get your newborn to eat vegetables and stress how sometimes the best way to deal with such an absurd situation is to laugh.

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Agent: Zeynep Sen