About the Author

Yesterday. . . When I was Young

For the most part, this space is in support of my book, “Men Can: The Changing Image & Reality of Fatherhood in America,” out in May 2010 from Temple University Press.

I currently teach in the Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at MIT; write about the representation of men, masculinity, and fatherhood in popular culture; do business journalism for Knowledge@Wharton and its affiliated sites; have a (dormant) blog on environmental issues.

Nonfiction work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Village Voice; radio commentary has aired on NPR affiliates in Amherst and Albany; short fiction has been published in the US, Canada and Europe.

Scholarly interests include questions of mutual assessment in the writing classroom.

Don Unger
April, 2010

One Response to “About the Author”

  1. Gabriel says:
    July 25, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    Ahoy Don– I was rooting about on the net here in NS and came across your site. Good way to get the word out. Just like in the visual arts, having a decent gallery is not like in the old days when you could just sit back and work. Now, even with a gallery / publisher you still have to do all the publicity. And they still get their nice cut…

    One small comment: the intro is a PDF, and is unreadable for those of us poor unfortunates still on dial-up. Perhaps you could add an option as ‘text’?

    The main photo of you looks like you have just stepped on the wharf after a circumnavigation solo. Which, in my world, is a compliment, as you know. In a sense, you have, after what it took to push this thing out the door.

    I look forward to reading it, even though my career as a dad has expired. I hope.

    Cheers,

    G

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