We’re talking about book reading challenges, how to choose your books, making time for reading, rereading, reading synoptically connecting it to everything else you’ve read), and more.
Show Timestamps:
- 3:55 – quantity shouldn’t be the measure of success
- 5:40 – on reading diversely
- 7:00 – against the gatekeepers of the literary world
- 12:00 – are you more well-read than Shakespeare?
- 15:00 – embarrassing story about my intellectual insecurity at Oxford
- 21:45 – how to write book reviews
- 22:37 – read books as a mirror
- 30:00 – the imaginative demands of great literature
- 32:00 – how to read Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy (controversial advice)
Recommendations:
- How to Read a Book
- How to Appreciate Short Stories
- ‘On Reading’ by Schopenhauer
- How to Read Deeply like Montaigne
- All Access Writing MasterClass Suite
About the Hardcore Literature Book Club:
I’ve been in conversation with a few of you wonderful people now, and it seems there is demand for a book club! We’ve got some exciting ideas pinging around.
So, if you’re reading this and you’d like a book club, make sure you let me know (ben@benjaminmcevoy.com) because I’d like to keep it relatively small, get a gauge on who is interested, and get it going by the end of the year.
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