Join Oliver Munday as he discusses his book Head of Household, a short story collection reckoning with fatherhood

“Munday has a gift for making the sad dad more than just a trope. Clear, bittersweet tales of masculinity come undone.”
— Kirkus

From stories about a father who shows up hung over to chaperone his daughter’s kindergarten bowling trip, to another who rediscovers his love of graffiti, and a father who pays for his legal fees and apartment through his OnlyFans earnings, Head of Household (Simon & Schuster) is a short story collection that reckons with divorce, financial anxiety, and sexuality to create a collage of the beleaguered father, a man on the front lines of a masculinity in crisis — stories of men salvaging the shreds of their identities while staging puppet shows and pretending to be ponies for their children.

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Oliver Munday is a graphic designer and the author of Don’t Sleep: The Urgent Messages of Oliver Munday. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Believer, The Sewanee Review, and LitHub. He lives in New York City.