What I'm Reading — Feb 2023

Rick Rubin, Sam Stagg, Liv Stratman, Adi Jaffe, David Carr, Scott Britton, Dan Savage, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Richard V Reeves, Mary Karr, Harry Crews, Laurie Stone, and Michael Mohr.

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A few things I’m reading, listening to, watching, using and learning this month.

Romance by

Laurie Stone

here on Substack

Harry Crews, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Gender Is Complicated for All of Us. Let’s Talk About It. — Kathryn Bond Stockton on the Ezra Klein show.

Dan Savage on Where the Sexual Revolution Went Wrong — Dan Savage on the Ezra Klein show.

Shame and Fraudulence

From Becoming A Somebody to Becoming A Nobody from

Consciousness ∞ The Doorway to Human Evolution

Behind the Mask: Mentoring Boys For a Better Future with Ashanti Branch on the Man Enough podcast

David Carr, Night of the Gun

Rick Rubin, The Creative Act

If You Struggle To Meditate Or Stick With It Read This

Robert Graves, Good-Bye to All That

Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir

Fitness and Creativity

Richard V Reeves

on Equality without androgyny from

Of Boys and Men

Richard V Reeves

on Male Inequality, explained by an expert

Freedom from Addiction — A Solution for Addictive Behavior, Deepak Chopra and Charlie Engle

Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky, Love and Addiction

DID YOU SLEEP WITH THE MODELS? by SAM STAGGS

— a serialized memoir by the former editor-in-chief of Mandate, Honcho, and Playguy on Substack

Adi Jaffe, The Abstinence Myth

Five Years Sober*

Out & Back

on Substack

Memoir and the Query Process on

My Own Private Waste Land

Part One: CONFLICT from

a reason to live

by

Liv Stratman

I put out chapters five and six from my memoir in progress, and I also released podcast episodes with men’s work leader Ashanti Branch and transgender professional paraglider pilot Galen Kirkpatrick, and recorded with world-class ultra-runner Charlie Engle, which will be released on March 6.

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