Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
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“Not everything can be said in a few words, but nothing can always be said in many words.”
In the prologue to Joe Wilkins’s new memoir-in-fragments, The Mountains and the Fathers, Wilkins writes, “In story we learn to live like human beings in the dark houses of our bodies.” That is exactly what The Mountains and the Fathers does. It creates a story for how an intelligent and awkward boy grows up in the tough and barren Big Dry of eastern Montana.
It’s a story of how a boy can find a home in a fatherless landscape, how a boy can become a new sort of man in the ranchlands of Montana. And that narrative is what makes this memoir stand out as a new Western memoir that creates new and much-needed myths about manhood in the West.
100 Notable Books of 2025
The New York Times Gift Article – If you read only one best books list each year, make it the one from the Times. Always insightful, and full of a vast array of gems. And remember to buy your books from indie book shops, brick and mortar or online, and used is always best. Then share…print books are always at hand, can go anywhere with you, and are so much easier and more comforting to read than e-books, and they are yours!
