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Oh, say what you will about the pretentions and the slideshow pageview-mongering (see the bottom right of the screen for the quick three-at-a-time cover gallery if you don’t want to click through them all, because who would!?!?) — if there was a hot, straight guy out there who’s actually read all these and could converse about each with intelligence and sincerity … OH RIGHT WHATEVER. Like that’s a reality.

(However, if you are down with The Right Stuff and Lonesome Dove and Raymond Carver, I think I’d probably want to date you. No Bukowski lovers, please.)

Related, kind of: How to be a modern gent.