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, the 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

The Intangibles is itself filled with so many intangibles that they are impossible to catalogue. There is the charm, the wit, the poignant coming-of-age story, the laugh-out-loud lines, the mad beer-league hockey scenes, the violence, the grace, the messiness of life, the insights into parenthood, the moments of transcendence. What they all add up to is something tangible: one of the best books I've read this year, or any other

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, the 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

The Intangibles is itself filled with so many intangibles that they are impossible to catalogue. There is the charm, the wit, the poignant coming-of-age story, the laugh-out-loud lines, the mad beer-league hockey scenes, the violence, the grace, the messiness of life, the insights into parenthood, the moments of transcendence. What they all add up to is something tangible: one of the best books I've read this year, or any other

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, the 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

The Intangibles is itself filled with so many intangibles that they are impossible to catalogue. There is the charm, the wit, the poignant coming-of-age story, the laugh-out-loud lines, the mad beer-league hockey scenes, the violence, the grace, the messiness of life, the insights into parenthood, the moments of transcendence. What they all add up to is something tangible: one of the best books I've read this year, or any other