[A] moving collection of essays, short stories and poetry by 75 men. … Tears of lost opportunities run through this collection, because the sons’ words were often written after the fathers died.
San Diego Magazine
A wonderful book that would make any day in the year a tribute to Dad. Keyes’s selections of prose and poetry, memoirs and fiction began as a labor of love motivated by his feeling about his father but continued because he came to realize that the deep feelings and pent-up emotions of the writers contributed …
Bookpage
Ralph Keyes, in his poignant introduction, details his own dealings with his dad, and how, over the years, he collected various writings on their fathers; the result is this book. … Keyes has done all men a service with Sons on Fathers.
St. Petersburg Times
Between fathers and sons there often exists a barrier to genuine emotional contact. Sometimes they succeed in making a connection indirectly, even mutely, but fathers too frequently live on ‘the outskirts of their families … ‘ The strongest of these stories, and there are many, pound achingly on the heart, cracking the encrustations of culture …
The Examined Life
The Era of the Lie Albert Mohler offers us a question: “Have we now reached a stage of social evolution that is “beyond honesty?”” Dr. Mohler is reacting to a new book by author Ralph Keyes The Post-Truth Era: Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life. Mr. Keyes posits that “Deception has become commonplace at all …
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Here’s a great article from The New Republic that I found very interesting. So much so that I’ve decided to pick up this book.