Dennis Keohane is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Wild Gentleman.
Book Club
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
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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
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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 greater
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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
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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 and
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
Literature
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
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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 inaugural