“Fantasy Man,” released by Harper this month, is a worthy follow-up to Jackson’s debut book, “ Slow Getting Up.” Rolling Stone hailed that one as “the best football memoir ever” and Tom Junod called it the “‘ Ball Four’ of the football world.” Nate Jackson will be signing copies of “Fantasy Man” on Thursday at Books, Inc. It all adds up to a funny new memoir that zooms along with the exquisite pacing of a proper two-minute drill. Jackson writes of NFL brutality, mismanaged pain treatment, infuriating coach-speak and, most harrowing of all, stupid fantasy league picks. There’s plenty of psychopath in Jackson’s latest book, “Fantasy Man,” and the San Jose native still diving headfirst into football’s most dangerous pile-ups. His new job, in which Jackson bangs out prose from coffee shops and libraries, isn’t as different as you might think. SAN JOSE - Nate Jackson, who played six seasons in the NFL, describes his previous employment as being “that psychopath who ran headfirst into other people for money.”
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