THE MEN IN MY LIFE AND OTHER...

THE MEN IN MY LIFE AND OTHER MORE OR LESS TRUE RECOLLECTIONS OF KINSHIP by James D. Houston (Greywolf Press: $12; 160 pp., paperback original). Houston tackles what are currently referred to as “guy things” in these introspective essays. His reflections on gaining respect from his college football team mates, rejecting the sham friendship produced by fraternity hazing and finding common ground with his father through music have more relevance to the lives of a healthy male in contemporary society than the drum-banging, role-playing games of the so-called men’s movement.