The perfect gift for the men in your life, The Tin House Father-and-Son pack includes The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto and How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself.

-One part celebration, one part history, two parts manifesto, Bernard DeVoto’s The Hour is a comic and unequivocal treatise on how and why we drink—properly. The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author turns his shrewd wit on the spirits and attitudes that cause his stomach to turn and his eyes to roll (Warning: this book is NOT for rum drinkers).

“The Hour is not simply a piece of humorous cultural patriotism either. It is a manual of witchcraft, a book of spells and observances.”
—Wallace Stegner, author of Angle of Repose

-How to Do Nothing literally tells “how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself”— real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. This is a book to free your kid from video games for a few hours, a handbook on the avoidance of boredom, a primer on the uses of solitude, a child’s declaration of independence.

“Every great book reminds us that we’re all alone in the world. At least this one provides us with the means to entertain ourselves while we’re here.”
—Lemony Snicket