Jesse Green

Jesse Green is a much-anthologized, award-winning journalist and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine; his articles have also appeared in The New Yorker, New York, The Washington Post, Premiere, GQ, Philadelphia, Mirabella, and Out. His novel, O Beautiful, was called "one of the best first novels of the year" by Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City.

Books
	The Velveteen Father: An Unexpected Journey to Parenthood 'Mommy,' he said. In the summer after his third birthday, Erez started asking for his mother, or at any rate for something he referred to by that name. 'I'm going outside to find Mommy,' he informed us one day, quite jauntily, as if he were announcing