Literary Guise: A Book Club for Modern Men
A book club where we (those who identify as men and those who want to understand men better) review great works of literature and discuss what they have to say about masculine archetypes. We are two life-long friends, one straight, one gay; a writer, and a doctor of computer science and philosophy, who have vastly different ideas of what it means to be a man. We’re here to take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly and to grow along the way.
Literary Guise: A Book Club for Modern Men
Episode 11.1: "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx
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Men's Book Club
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Season 1
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Episode 37
We finish up the first season of Literary Guise with one of author Zachary Kellian's favorite works of fiction. Will co-host Gordon Macallan like it too (yes, yes he will. This is Annie Proulx we're talking about. A living legend in American literature.)
You definitely want to read this piece. It's much more than that "gay cowboy story." It's a masterpiece about masculinity in its coarsest form. And it's one of the most heartfelt and accurate portrayals of love ever put to the page.
