Siddharta by Hermann Hesse is a life-changing book. The work is a slim masterpiece, but one that deserves a long, slow, deep read. I would encourage you to tuck the book into your back pocket and take it into the heart of nature with you. Take the Nobel Prize winning Hesse with you, and meditate […]
The Bhagavad Gita Podcast
The Bhagavad Gita, the 700-verse jewel of Hindu Scripture from the epic Mahabharata, gifts us Lord Krishna’s counsel to warrior prince Arjuna in time of war. This philosophical poem is endlessly instructive to us today and can aid us in times of war and conflict. In this episode of the Hardcore Literature Podcast, we’re learning […]
The Gulag Archipelago Podcast (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize winning The Gulag Archipelago is one of the most brutal reminders we have that the slippery slope is a dangerous place to teeter upon. Solzhenitsyn’s work is a chilling historical account of what happens when violent ideology goes unchecked. It’s a real-world demonstration of Milgram and Zimbardo’s studies into blind obedience to authority […]
The Anna Karenina Podcast
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is tied with Proust’s In Search of Lost Time for my favourite novel of all time. Anna Karenina is endlessly re-readable and teachable. The length and depth of the series of lectures over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club is testament to the depth of Tolstoy’s grand novel. Tolstoy’s characters endure. We will love […]
The Carl Jung Podcast (Man and His Symbols)
It’s been a little while since I’ve sat down with a cup of coffee and done a podcast about a Great Book. I’ve been working hard behind the scenes putting together video lectures on Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Freud, Plato, and more over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club. There’s a great discussion going on right now, […]
About the Crime and Punishment Book Club Lecture Series
You might know that we’ve got Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment on the horizon in the Hardcore Literature Book Club. We’re going on a trip to 1866 Saint Petersburg – a thrilling trip through hell. This is a very different novel from our first Big Read, Anna Karenina. Learning to read Tolstoy is learning to sharpen our […]
How to Read Crime and Punishment (10 Tips for Digesting Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is one of the heavyweights of Russian Literature. The first reader of Dostoyevsky’s deep tome will encounter many difficulties. But if you push through and overcome those difficulties, you will be endlessly rewarded. So, as host of the Hardcore Literature Book Club where we’re reading Crime and Punishment deeply together […]
The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Hardcore Literature Podcast)
The short stories of Ernest Hemingway are masterpieces of modern literature. In today’s episode of the Hardcore Literature Podcast, we’ll be breaking down, analysing, savouring, appreciating the following Hemingway short stories: ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ We’ll also discuss Hemingway’s theories of writing, and his adventurous and troublesome […]
How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)
Bibliotherapy can heal your trauma. But what is bibliotherapy? And how can we put it into practice? This episode of Hardcore Literature goes deep into how we can live the great books and read therapeutically in order to soothe, combat, and defeat mental anguish stemming from trauma. How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A […]
How to Cure Lockdown Depression (A Roadmap to Meaning)
If lockdown has got you feeling like a rat in a box, you’re not alone. Endless deprivation of human contact, no variation in environment, long periods of sedentariness, and perhaps even falling foul of the COVID 15 – gaining fifteen pounds of lockdown weight from mindless binge comfort-eating. Bloating and inflammation and existential ennui. This […]
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