Every issue of The Wild Gentleman newsletter — monthly reflections on literature, masculinity, and the examined life for thoughtful men.
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Updates "It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the earth." "The same natural forces that so threaten us are the same forces that preserve and renew us." - Wendell Berry, "The Body and the Earth" Tonight is
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Updates Quick one up top: The Wild Gentleman Book Club meets again this week. We're discussing Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses — the first of his Border Trilogy, and the book that got him on the radar of the literary establishment for the first time. New
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Updates The Wild Gentleman Book Club met on Wednesday, August 12th. Over the summer, we met and discussed John by Niall Williams, Nick Offerman's Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, and John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. In August, we read Charles Portis's True Grit
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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.