Comments on: Nine Writers Carrying the Torch for Men’s Fiction

By: jerry

jerry — Wed, 22 May 2013 03:15:33 +0000

The Road and how you promote others to read it speaks highly of your manhood. All the word twisting and scented flow of feminized tripe is consumed by reality. The Road speaks to you or scares you enough to discount it.

By: Alberto Arcia

Alberto Arcia — Wed, 01 May 2013 18:53:03 +0000

There are many ways to portray male masculinity. There’s the legendary form hyped by Robert Greer, Marc Phillips, and Ivan Doig. They push the Cowboy and War hero image. BORING !! In Alberto Arcia’s Cut & Run, The Misadventures of Alex Perez” The initiation of boys into manhood is more representative of who we actually are, and we’re not Cowboys or War Heroes

By: Kubie

Kubie — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:15:25 +0000

Robert B. Parker especially his Spenser series. Also anything by Louis L’Amour will put hairs on your chest.

By: thull

thull — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:02:27 +0000

No one mentioned Clive Cussler or his associate writers, Jack DuBrul, for one. I really enjoy all the Cussler series.

By: News about money

News about money — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:08:34 +0000

[...]His forthcoming novel, Haymaker, is set farther north in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, and rumor has it he’s cloistered himself in a Lake Superior cabin to finish. Prepare for a dust jacket head-shot with grizzled beard and plenty of flannel.[...]

By: Alamgir Kahn

Alamgir Kahn — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:25:10 +0000

I’m curious to know from those that didn’t like The Road, whether you have any children.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:21:21 +0000

“The Road” was a waste of paper.
I’ll have to find the others and give them a try. I hope they are better then “The Road”.

By: Shane Bevel

Shane Bevel — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:16:10 +0000

There are a lot of great authors listed here. The loose grouping of Guy De La Valdene, Jim Harrison, Thomas McGuane and others are certainly among my favorites. Guy De La Valdene’s For a Handful of Feathers is a brilliant little book and Thomas McGuane’s short story “Flight” is a favorite.

Another that I always find should be a part of this list is Mark Spragg. If you are into fiction check out The Fruit of Stone. If you prefer real life read his memoir of childhood, Where Rivers Change Direction. If living on the continental divide and splitting your time between running a dude ranch and bear baiting doesn’t fit the bill…. I am not sure what would.

By: S.M. Dennis

S.M. Dennis — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:53:57 +0000

This list needs to be amended to include Wendell Berry. Agrarian farmer, essayist, novelist, and poet. He may be the last living true man of letters in the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries. He may be the last living true man.

By: Ian Petersen

Ian Petersen — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 07:10:40 +0000

Mainly a playwright, I think Sam Shepard must be included for the psychologically raw, honest version of masculinity he presents in his characters, whose struggles are primal contests often for dominance over their fellows or family, and in later works for authenticity and true American identity. In these struggles they frequently and unwittingly display (notably more significantly than strength,) their tragic flaws and psychological weakness.