Michael McGuire
Masculinity: There's Another Way
When I imagine what a man should be, my first instinct is to picture one of Ernest Hemingway’s characters: the definition of a man’s man....
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Michael McGuire
Chapter Seven
There I sat, staring at the alarm clock. That week I had been waking up at 5:30 am just like Ian had told me. But also as he predicted,...
Michael McGuire
Chapter Six
My alarm clock rang– 5:30 AM. Four days prior, I had lost the second summer intern challenge. The prize this time? A whole day shadowing...
Michael McGuire
Chapter Five
Not going to die today, Mom. On the winding roads back up the hill, I must have thanked my new saviors at least one hundred times. I...
Michael McGuire
Chapter Four
I woke up that first Saturday with Salazar’s voice in my head. According to him, San Francisco was the best city in the world to be...
Michael McGuire
Chapter Three
Hi, Mom. Lately I have struggled with the concept of being present. I have been in San Francisco for less than forty-eight hours and look...
Michael McGuire
Chapter Two
I had seen Atlas Labs on my computer screen over one hundred times, but no amount of pictures could have prepared me for standing in...
Michael McGuire
Chapter One
I have a theory, Mom. I have a theory that in this world there exists neither good nor bad emotions. I remember learning in school that...
Michael McGuire
Damn it, you've got to be kind
I have a code in life. In fact, “there is only one rule that I know of… you’ve got to be kind.” Yet in these trying times, I find myself...
Michael McGuire
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris
I am often of the mindset that every good World War II book has already been written. Of course there are some exceptions. I loved All...
Michael McGuire
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
This journey dates back to Christmas 2018. This was the year in which all that I asked for Christmas was a stack of books from my lengthy...
Michael McGuire
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
You open your eyes, but no light enters. Without sight, your complimentary senses work tirelessly, trying to make sense of the situation....
Michael McGuire
Bluebeard, by Kurt Vonnegut
Tell me, how did your parents die? Oh, my name is Michael by the way. So? Was it slow and without pain? Or did they go out in a flit of...
Michael McGuire
Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion
Have you ever met and girl and thought, “Yeah she could probably ruin my life, and I’d apologize for it?” Well, that’s the feeling I get...
Michael McGuire
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that has taken me longer than the time it took to read War and Peace, has been the time it took me to finally write this...
Michael McGuire
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
I seem to have made a mistake in the process of this website. I announced that I would be regularly reviewing the books that I read, yet...
Michael McGuire
Day of Positivity
I woke up yesterday, after a weekend of sleeping on my floor due to friends visiting, surprisingly ill. It was one of those things where...
Michael McGuire
Banana Pancakes
"This Song is meant to keep you Doin' what you're supposed to Wakin' up too early Maybe we could sleep in Make you banana pancakes...
Michael McGuire
White House, White Collar
"Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke have already planted formidable money markers: Vermont’s Mr....
Michael McGuire
The Mind is but a Number
It was a cold and rainy morning, I doubt the two Irishmen even noticed. My grandpa 84, his friend 92, just trying to outlive the Queen,...
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