Andrew McCarthy: Who Needs Friends?
Actor and bestselling author Andrew McCarthy shares his 10,000-mile journey exploring the crisis of male friendship and loneliness across America.
Why we picked this
Male loneliness is one of those topics everyone acknowledges but few explore with real curiosity — McCarthy drove 10,000 miles talking to strangers about it, and the result is surprisingly moving.
Andrew McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author and National Geographic Traveler editor-at-large, spent months driving across America talking to cowboys, preachers, rootless teenagers, and everyone in between about a deceptively simple question: what does friendship mean to men?
Who Needs Friends: An Unscientific Examination of Male Friendship Across America is part road narrative, part social investigation into the epidemic of male loneliness. McCarthy brings both a writer’s eye for detail and an actor’s instinct for character to a subject that deserves more honest attention than it usually gets.