Danny McBride—best known for skewering bruised-ego masculinity in Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones—is taking that same energy off the screen and onto the page. He’s releasing his first short-story collection, Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, on June 23 through Random House. The book digs into the darker corners of modern manhood, using McBride’s signature mix of crude humor and uncomfortable honesty. According to the publisher, the stories examine men struggling as the world moves on without them—and not always handling it well. McBride says he wrote the stories between seasons of Gemstones as a way to shift gears creatively. He describes the characters as men who spiral, screw up, embarrass themselves, and occasionally stumble into doing something decent—emphasis on occasionally. He’ll also narrate the audiobook himself. The book builds directly on themes he’s explored throughout his TV career: men clinging to outdated ideas of masculinity and entitlement, then crashing headfirst into reality.