"I would advocate for more use of an anthology. And more memorisation. You may also find that, to begin with, you do not want take such a critical approach and would prefer to follow your nose rather than doing what Hazlitt tells you (although you should read Hazlitt at some point, he is among the … Continue reading Arnold Bennett’s Ten Step Plan for Learning to Appreciate Poetry
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Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey
"...I always resist the “classics is impractical” line that people love to come up with when they are critical of the higher study of these fields. You can study accounting. It's authentically practical in one way. But when your father dies, your accounting degree is not going to help you at all to process that … Continue reading Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey
RedditReads.com
"I processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on reddit. Browse by subreddit or check out some popular results below.Including comments up to 30 Nov 2021.https://www.redditreads.com-
Zuihitsu: What Is It?
"The Japanese describe the genre as “a running brush” as it does not lie so much in the subjects it deals with but rather in the movement of the wind. The style consists of personal interconnected essays or fragmented ideas that respond to the author’s surroundings; however, these “essays” jump from one to the other … Continue reading Zuihitsu: What Is It?
How to Read Big Books
"...it is a principal task of a successful modern university to teach people how to read [big, difficult, flawed, incredibly insightful, genius books]. Indeed, it might be said that one of the few key competencies we here at the university have to teach—our counterpart or the medieval triad of rhetoric, logic, grammar and then quadriad … Continue reading How to Read Big Books
Book Marks: The Book Review Aggregator
"Every day, the Book Marks staff scours the most important and active outlets of literary journalism in the US—from established national broadsheets to regional weeklies and alternative litblogs—and logs their book reviews. When a book is reviewed by at least three outlets, each of those reviews is assigned an individual rating (Rave, Positive, Mixed or … Continue reading Book Marks: The Book Review Aggregator
Why Should You Read “The Master and Margarita”? – Alex Gendler
The Translation Database
"The only resource of its kind, the Translation Database was founded in 2008 by Three Percent and Open Letter Books at the University of Rochester to track all original publications of fiction and poetry published in the U.S. in English translation." —The Translation Database
Who Cares About The Great American Novel?
"A question from the New York Times’ Bookends, “Where is the great American novel by a woman?,” got an interesting answer from the Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid... [Ursula's answer, in short:] But there’s something coy and coercive about the question itself that made me want to charge into the bullring, head down and horns forward. … Continue reading Who Cares About The Great American Novel?
Taste of Loneliness and Love
"I believe there is a reason certain tastes, scents, sounds, and sights move me the way they do; part of it is conditioning, the other is deeper. For instance, I have no connection to the church, but I have grown to love gospel music and feel myself moved by the passion. I’m a Jew, but … Continue reading Taste of Loneliness and Love
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