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Meeting #12 - Tuesday, July 21, 2026 "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream." — John Steinbeck, Cannery Row The Wild Gentleman Book Club Last month, we met with a small
Updates It has been more than a year since I launched The Wild Gentleman and sent the first newsletter in July 2025. It has been everything I hoped it would be and more. The best part has been people pulling me aside when I happen to run into them out
Meeting #11 - Wednesday, June 24, 2026 The Wild Gentleman Book Club In May, we discussed Nick Offerman's Where the Deer and the Antelope Play. This month, we meet once again at Paddy's with a wholly different story. Irish author Niall Williams gives a great explanation on
Updates June's The Wild Gentleman Book Club meeting is TONIGHT. This month's book is a departure from last month's, as we will be discussing John by Niall Williams. The book is written from an insight Williams had — and explains here — wondering what John was
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Meeting #10 - Wednesday, May 20, 2026 "My tasks involved the making of mistakes, then discovering how to resolve those errors without being an asshole, a search that I now understand will never end." The Wild Gentleman Book Club In April, the book club read Allen Levi's
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Updates We have our next The Wild Gentleman Book Club meeting this week. We had a shorter window of time between our last book club and this month's summer-ish schedule — with Memorial Day and Boston Tech Week next week. We were originally going to read John by
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Meeting #9 - Tuesday, April 28, 2026 The Wild Gentleman Book Club Last month, we met and discussed George Saunders's Vigil. We had a great conversation centered on legacy, love, our passion projects, and on striving for achievement. One key theme we discussed from Vigil was whether or not
I really want a mentor. I’ve been thinking about this for probably twenty years, and it brings a twinge of sadness to my soul that I’ve never found a person who matches my understanding of what a mentor is. To me, a mentor is someone I really connect
On community, friendship, and the courage to show up for each other Last week, The Wild Gentleman Book Club met for the first time (some details on next month can be found here). It was an amazing night of good company and conversation. When I started this project, building a
There's a commentary in today's New York Times that I've read and reread a couple of times, and can't stop thinking about. The article examines how empathy—which I've long considered a virtue—has become another barometer of one'
Perfection is the Opposite of Growth - If this article sucks. It's ok. These days, I sense a rising tide pushing the idea—often subtly, but also sometimes quite overtly—that for a man, failure is weakness. I sense it in politics, media, sports, and it permeates social media,
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Updates April feels like the right month for a book like Theo of Golden. There's something about spring — nature reawakening, imploring you to slow down a bit to connect more deeply with the world around you — that is reflected in many of the themes from Allen Levi'
Meeting #8 - Wednesday, March 18, 2026 "Elevation flared within me. My charge had been born him. But had never chosen to be born him. That had just happened to him. Then life had happened to that him, exerting upon it certain deleterious effects, including but not limited to: the
Updates We have our eighth meeting of The Wild Gentleman Book Club this Wednesday night, March 18, at 6 PM at Paddy's Public House in West Newton. This month, we are reading George Saunders's Vigil — a recent novel set over the course of a single night
Meeting #7 - Tuesday, February 17, 2026 "You hear this fifty times a day. You can turn on the radio or the television and hear it every hour. Man is conquering the deserts, man is conquering the oceans, man is conquering the atom, man is conquering the elements, man is
Updates We have our seventh in-person meeting of The Wild Gentleman Book Club scheduled for tonight, Tuesday, February 17, at 6 PM at Paddy's Public House in Newton. The book club selection for February is Daniel Quinn's Ishmael—a philosophical story about a gorilla who
Meeting #6 - Tuesday, January 20, 2026 "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater
Updates We have our sixth in-person meeting of The Wild Gentleman Book Club scheduled for Tuesday, January 20, at 6 PM at Paddy's Public House in Newton. The book club selection for January is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—a book I finally read after years of
Meeting #5 - December 16th, 2025 "He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and
Updates We have our fifth in-person meeting of The Wild Gentleman Book Club scheduled for Tuesday, December 16, at 6 PM at City Streets Restaurant in Waltham. The book club selection for December is Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol—a holiday classic on priorities, redemption, and trying
Meeting #4 - November 18th, 2025 "We are going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions.
Updates We have our fourth in-person The Wild Gentleman Book Club meeting scheduled for this Tuesday, November 18, at 6 PM at Copper House Tavern in Waltham. The book club selection for November is George Saunders's A Swim in a Pond in the Rain—one of my
Meeting #3 - October 15th, 2025 "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." The Wild Gentleman Book Club After exploring Viktor Frankl's meditation on finding purpose last month, we turn to Hemingway's acclaimed novella about the epic