On Second Thought For Thursday, May 23, 2019

Writer Steve Oney has been writing for more than four decades for
publications such as Esquire , Time, GQ and The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution. Over the course of his career, he estimates
that he’s written somewhere between 150 and 200 profiles, 20 of
which are included in A Man’s World , a collection of essays now
out in paperback. All the profiles in A Man’s World explore a
common theme: how and what it means to be a man. These have always
been pressing questions for Oney, who told GPB Political Rewind
host Bill Nigut that his father never fully equipped him for
manhood. And so Oney looked toward his subjects for lessons in
masculinity. He shared those lessons with us, including what he
learned about being a man from actor Harrison Ford and Atlanta
architect John Portman.