Episode 8.4: "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson

09/27/21 • 28 min

Literary Guise: A Book Club for Modern Men

We wrap up Richard Matheson's masterpiece with deep dives into vampire scientists, the insidious nature of Manifest Destiny indoctrination in public schools, and the 80s cartoon classic Pound Puppies. (Yes, it was a late night at the Stardust Lounge and yes, they cut us off).

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Episode 8.3: "I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson

Let's talk about dogs: doggos, puppers, and vampire-bacteria-infected-canines. Robert Neville gets a dog in these chapters and it's a heart-breaker. We also do a deep dive into male stoicism and the under-lying societal causes. So it's a light-hearted easy-breezy one, is what we're promising.

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Episode 9.1: "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead

One of our more serious ventures, this month we're discussing the recent Pulitzer-Prize winner: The Nickel Boys. Heartbreaking, important, and wonderfully written. We will use this novel as a jumping off point to explore what society has done to young men over the years and we will not shy away from having frank conversations about race in American. This novel is a must read, but if that all sounds too heavy for your 2021 reading, stay tuned next month when we'll be reading the novel that inspired "Die Hard." (We like to mix it up at Literary Guise)