This is how Pam Houston, the author of a timeless book about dating wild and adventurous men, helped gear editor kellyy_klein navigate romantic frustrations in a mountain town. "Cowboys Are My Weakness, Houston’s 1992 debut, is a collection of fictional stories based on her personal experiences in the American West. My mom gave me her copy a few years ago, just before I went through my first real breakup. The stories are written from the perspectives of various brave, smart women, all of whom pursue relationships with wild men. There’s a reckless river junkie who puts the narrator’s life in danger on a Class V rapid, a bristly hunter who one woman follows deep into the woods of Alaska, and a sweet rancher who takes a woman dancing. The men in the book, too unrestrained to settle down, never commit to the narrators and eventually leave them feeling empty. I am familiar with the scenario. Thirty-one years after it came out, Cowboys still feels relevant, perhaps even more so than when ...