Essays, reader's guides, and literary reflections from The Wild Gentleman — exploring what great books reveal about character, purpose, and what it means to be a good man.
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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