OK, so one of my top 5 favorite books of 2006 (so far, but this'll stay on the list) is SELF MADE MAN: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again.    At long last, we're offering this acclaimed New York Times bestseller in early, exclusive paperback in our just-released October catalog.  Why do I love this book? Well, it's audacious enough that author/journalist Norah Vincent donned stubble, a prosthesis in her pants and a full wardrobe of man gear (suit, hoodie, monk's vestments...) for over a year just to find out what it's like to live like as a man in a man's world in the vein of Barbara Ehrenreich or Black Like Me.  It's audacious-er that the resulting book is so much more than a stunt, and that Norah dispenses immediately with Men Are Pigs polemics.  Her revelations--about the hurt guys carry around with them, about the tender platonic relationships they form with one another, about their fraught relationships with fathers and women--are sociologically astute, deeply empathetic and always surprising.  Norah--known as "Ned" during her experiment--submitted to a sit-down interview in the QPB offices earlier this year. What a treat that was!  Check it out.