Michael Taylor makes no bones about the intent of his book "A New Conversation with Men." It is nothing less than to create a new paradigm of masculinity in this country. He says so in the very first paragraph of Chapter One.

Westerns have been around for a long time, and there is no better reading on a rainy weekend, especially when sitting in an easy chair in front of a warm fire. But Western's are pretty much the same aren't they? Well ---yes---and that's what makes Sean Chandler's "Gospel of the Gun" such a pleasure to read.

"Walking to Extremes" is one of those rare books that defies categorization. It is a magical book, for sure; one fashioned from a rich fabric that seems to be skillfully woven by a consortium of poets, raconteurs, philosophers, naturalists, outdoorsmen, and hikers; and so it is, except that the consortium exists only in the mind of one man; Howard McCord.