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'
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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:
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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
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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
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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 teaches
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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
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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 false
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
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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
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 to
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
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 favorite
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
Welcome to The Wild Gentleman newsletter. In the spirit of adventure and continued growth, I undertook a personal development project last month, incorporating a combination of reading, learning, and practice. It has added more richness and meaning to my days than I ever could have imagined. I share that experience
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
Meeting #2 - September 10th, 2025 "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." The Wild Gentleman Book Club After our
August brought our first book club meeting, a mountain road conquered, and proof that the best adventures happen when we stop talking about doing something and simply begin. Welcome to another The Wild Gentleman Newsletter. Read on. Updates We had our first The Wild Gentleman Book Club in early August.
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
Inaugural Meeting - August 5th, 2025 The Wild Gentleman Book Club This week marks the beginning of something special—a community of thoughtful men exploring what it means to live with purpose, integrity, and authentic connection. For the first book, I chose The Great Gatsby because it raises uncomfortable questions
