Benjamin McEvoy

Essays on writing, reading, and life

Content Marketing Advice For Beginners (Video)

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Here’s another video excerpt from the beginning of my new course. Again, still talking mindset stuff here but with some practical application. If you want to make a living online, or increase your voice and online exposure, but don’t know how to get started, this is one of my recommendations. In the course version of […]

How To Start Content Marketing: Start Scaling YOU (Video)

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My next free video course will teach you how to make a living online. This video’s an excerpt taken from a longer video, a mindset module on how to approach making money online. The course is going to be very involved and extremely hands-on. But it’s obviously important to get in the right head-space first. […]

Books I’m Reading This Month: May/June 2020 (Video)

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To be honest, I’ve got more books on the go than I can possibly manage. Books turn up at my door every day. Either because I’ve got drunk and ordered them, or because some kind soul wants me to review their work, or because I’m obligated to order everything those close to me recommend.  But […]

Analysing Shakespeare’s Sonnets: 2, 20 & 29 (Video)

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Three of my favourite Shakespeare sonnets are: II, XX & XXIX. Here’s a reading followed by a quick analysis, linking them together.  I just scratched the surface of why I love these sonnets. I’m thinking I’ll put together a series of quick “intro” type videos to Shakespeare’s sonnets, three at a time, not going above […]

The Philosophy of Groundhog Day

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Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?  Ralph: That about sums it up for me. Groundhog Day is the masterpiece that slips you by. Everybody knows The Godfather is the cinematic version of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling. […]

‘All The World’s A Stage’ by Shakespeare: Poetry Reading (Video)

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Today I’m reading Jaques’ iconic monologue from As You Like It (Act II Scene VII Line 139). One of my favourite monologues in all of Shakespeare. Of course, there’s Lear’s ‘Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!’ Lear himself being a perfect representation of what Jaques refers to as ‘second childishness’. Then there’s countless lines from […]

‘Love and Sleep’ by Swinburne: Poetry Reading (Video)

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Patrick Stewart’s been reading a sonnet a day during lockdown. And Billy Collins has been giving poetry readings. How marvellous is that? And though the idea to scatter some occasional poem readings amongst Hardcore Literature did cross my mind, I kind of wrote the idea off. Best stick to deep analysis, I thought. But I’ve […]

#3 Audiobook Pick of the Week

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Anna Karenina has fast become one of my favourite books of all time. But there’s no denying it’s a long book. Don’t let the length, or the large cast of Russian names, put you off though. Once you settle into Tolstoy’s world, you become very much at home. You make friends with Levin, Vronsky, Stefi, […]

How to Ace the Oxford English Entrance Exam (Video)

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If you’re preparing for the Oxford English Literature Entrance Exam (ELAT), you’ll want to watch this 30-minute video on how to prepare. It’s the best video on the topic anywhere (if I do say so myself). I give deep insights into my own process, the one that resulted in me acing the ELAT and getting […]