The perfect title for Father's Day: Alex Mindt's Male of the Species features eleven touching stories about modern fatherhood. Reviewers and journalists planning Father's Day reviews and roundups should consider including this skilled, remarkable collection. More content about this title—including special "behind the book" information by the author—is available. Please contact the publisher at marketing@openroadmedia.com for more information. Alex Mindt on Fathers: The title story of this highly praised book, about a small-town Texas science teacher threatening to flunk his high school’s brilliantly talented football star, sets the collection’s timely theme, the conflict between the image of how American men are supposed to act and the way they secretly feel like acting. This theme is skillfully modulated in almost all of the book’s eleven selections—from “Stories of the Hunt,” about a boy discovering that his ostensibly he-man woodsman father doesn’t in fact know the first thing about tracking deer, to “Immigration,” about a Vietnamese refugee working in a Las Vegas casino and dreaming of becoming the worlds greatest Elvis impersonator. Alex Mindt is an award-winning filmmaker and writer whose experiences as carpenter, nanny, truck driver, strawberry picker, and cross-country traveler informs the characters of these stories. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children, and teaches at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop.