Thank you to everyone who has emailed in and asked such great, nuanced questions about books, reading, and literature. I just had to do a Q&A show – first one! – because these were some really interesting questions.
Feel free to check out the timestamps below the audio player to jump to whatever questions interests you the most.
The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & Literature
- 01:00 – where should I start to become more well read and read deeply? What about the 5-year reading program?
- 14:42 – what is your advice when it comes to reading translated literature?
- 18:24 – do you have any recommendations for Ancient Greek editions? (right here)
- 21:44 – do you have any advice for how to handle annotations/footnotes?
- 22:48 – what tips do you have for getting a blog seen at the beginning?
- 28:10 – would you include Proust in your French pathways?
- 31:15 – what do you think about the book prize lists?
- 39:44 – how do you start a book podcast?
- 43:30 – how do you take notes when reading fiction?
- 48:21 – what do you think of speed reading?
- 49:57 – can you talk more about the Hardcore Literature book club?
Information About Upcoming Hardcore Literature Shows
We’ve got a lot of great shows coming out soon. I wish I had more time in the day, but we’re getting there!
We’re doing the Nobel Prize Bookclub, each month addressing the works of winners like Louise Glück and Kazuo Ishiguro. We’ve just kicked off with Peter Handke.
We’re going to break down big words like Les Misérables and Anna Karenina and Atlas Shrugged.
We’ve got “souls works” like Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
We’ll do a “Works of Revolutionary Literature” Book Club with Animal Farm (which won an overwhelming amount of votes for the next show – it’s on its way!) and The Gulag Archipelago.
We’ll be kicking off the super ambitious Shakespeare Project with the Henry Tetralogy (ugh) and Richard III (yay).
We’ll do something called Play of the Month with works by John Osborne, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Oscar Wilde.
And we’ll have more Q&A Shows, so let me know your questions!