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.

Contributors

Host

Gordon McCallan

A leading executive in the tech industry, you probably are reading this on something he’s worked on.

Favorite writer: Bret Easton Ellis.

Favorite novel: Microserfs by Douglas Coupland.

Literary character with whom he most identifies:

Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley series (minus the murder and most of the paranoia).

Host

Zachary Kellian

A highly-published author of short fiction and an upcoming novel. He is also the co-founder and editor of Orca: A Literary Journal.

Favorite writer: Dylan Thomas

Favorite novel: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Literary character with whom he most identifies:

Ben Sanderson from Leaving Las Vegas (minus the solicitation of sex workers and some of the alcoholism.)

http://www.zacharykellian.com