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Brian Gresko is the editor of the anthology When I First Held You (Berkley Books/Penguin). At the heart of his work lies a fascination with culture, gender roles, and parenting. His essays and journalism have appeared on the Huffington Post, Salon, TheAtlantic.com, the Daily Beast, The Brooklyn Rail, the Paris Review Daily, the Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among numerous others. In print, he has contributed to Poets & Writers Magazine, Glimmer Train Stories and Slice Literary magazine. He is currently at work on a novel. ...more

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	When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood 3.90 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmer Train Stories, #83 by Susan Burmeister-Brown (Editor), Linda B. Swanson-Davies (Editor), Joseph Johns 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“out of arrogance, of laziness, or the shallow notion that modern, freethinking parents ought to allow children to decide these things for themselves, we’d given our daughter none of it.”
― Brian Gresko, When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood

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