Manhood today is under siege — regarded as an object of menace on college quads, associated with various forms of real and imagined oppression, ridiculed in humanities departments, parodied by sitcoms and commercials, and shriveled to a raisin-sized remnant by psychosexual theorizing.
But while manhood may be under attack in a sociopolitical context, it remains very much a living idea which every penis-endowed person must wrestle with over the course of his lifetime. Right Tool for the Job is a comic account of one man’s struggle to honor his testosterone heritage–with varying results.
Reviews:
"Men, women, and children have a lot to learn from Mark Goldblatt’s irresistible ‘memoir of manly concerns.’ Reliving his epic and trivial failures–as well as his unnatural-yet-totally-understandable attraction to Inger Stevens–he returns us to a recent past that is fading like a radio signal from a ship sailing off the edge of the world." — Nick Gillespie, editor, Reason.com
"Mark Goldblatt writes well and thinks well and can do both at the same time. Plus he has a wry, sharp insight into life. It’s a powerful combination." — Andrew Klavan, bestselling author of The Great Good Thing
"Goldblatt is one of America’s most uncompromising literary iconoclasts." — John Podhoretz, editor, Commentary.
About the Author:
Mark Goldblatt teaches developmental English and religious history at the Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York. He is the author of six books: two middle-grade novels, Twerp and Finding the Worm; a literary mystery, The Unrequited; a collection of political commentary, Bumper Sticker Liberalism; a literary satire, Sloth; and a political novel, Africa Speaks. Currently, he lives in New York City and alters his routes to work regularly.
David M. Swindle took over in 2021 as Liberty Island Media Group's new owner, Publisher, and Editor-In-Chief. He joined LI in May of 2015, initially as West Coast Editor. He previously worked as associate editor of PJ Media from 2011-2015 where he grew the PJ Lifestyle vertical, and associate editor of FrontPageMag from 2009-2011 where he developed the media criticism site NewsReal Blog as its managing editor.
David double-majored in English (creative writing emphasis) and Political Science, graduating from Ball State University in 2006. After years of feeling torn between creative work and political activism, David now embraces the late Andrew Breitbart’s aphorism that “Politics is downstream from culture.”
As a novel editor David will consider books of just about any genre or type (he hands off romance, young adult, legal, and military titles to those better equipped on the team). His current areas of strongest interest include science fiction, fantasy, thriller/suspense, hard-boiled detective and crime, horror, westerns, historical, alternate history, speculative, cultural satire, literary, and religious fiction. He also reviews nonfiction submissions on politics, arts, media, faith, and counterculture.
His first novel he both edited and published is Tom Cosentino's
The Art of Looking for Trouble.
Liberty Island titles which David edited include
Justice, Inc by J.P. Medved,
Mad Jones, Heretic: The Accidental Prophet, Book 1 by Quin Hillyer,
Silver & Lead: A Novella of the West by David Churchill Barrow and MaryLu Barrow,
Snowflake’s Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior by Curtis Edmonds,
Mad Jones, Hero: The Accidental Prophet, Book 2 by Quin Hillyer,
Mad Jones, Agonistes: The Accidental Prophet, Book 3 by Quin Hillyer,
Pulse of the Goddess: The American Blackout, Book 1 by Fred Tribuzzo,
Slaves Beneath the Stars: American Blackout, Book 2 by Fred Tribuzzo,
Gangster Town: The American Blackout, Book 3 by Fred Tribuzzo, and
First Shot: Jin & Tonick, Book 1 by Bokerah Brumley.
David's articles have been published at such publications as The Daily Wire,
The Washington Examiner, The Investigative Project on Terrorism,
The Algemeiner,
The American Spectator, The Daily Caller,
The California Courier, Campus Watch, Rebel Media, Big Hollywood, and
The Indianapolis Star. He currently lives in Burbank, California. Follow him on Twitter
@DaveSwindle.
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