Eric Scheske

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How I Found Great Used Books . . . and a Dose of Grace

How I Found Great Used Books . . . and a Dose of Grace

Except for my garden, which is a blend of hobby and post-apocalyptic planning, I don’t have any hobbies. I have a lot of things I do occasionally, like travel, watch football, and drink at a bar. I also exercise and pray regularly. I don’t think the former rise

Six Challenging Assertions from D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature

Six Challenging Assertions from D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature

Highlightings of D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature

Tolkien's Letters: Revised and Expanded

Tolkien's Letters: Revised and Expanded

Isaiah Flair at University Bookman

Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives, by Joseph Epstein

Partial Payments: Essays on Writers and Their Lives, by Joseph Epstein

A Micro-Review/Essay “I am indebted to these writers.” Paean. Nineteen of them. An essayist removes his hat, lowers his head, and says “thanks.” The essayist convinces us these subjects are great. We then understand that the essayist is great. Like recognizes like. Max Beerbohm’s prose is difficult to

Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters

Melina Moe at the Los Angeles Review of Books

How to be a Holy Drunk

How to be a Holy Drunk

A few notes on Sebastian Flyte The early pages of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited describe the drunken antics of students Lord Sebastian Flyte and Charles Ryder (the narrator). Ryder makes the later observation that he “got drunk often, but through an excess of high spirits, in the love

Four Levels of Literature to Form a Healthy Worldview

Four Levels of Literature to Form a Healthy Worldview

Ideas bloom like plants. Good plants begin with good soil

"Introducing a Person Who Needs No Introduction . . ."

"Introducing a Person Who Needs No Introduction . . ."

My inadvertent love affair with book introductions. Plus a dozen introduction recommendations.

Eight Astonishing Facts about The Brothers Karamazov

Eight Astonishing Facts about The Brothers Karamazov

Plus Six Unverified Facts and Five Interesting Facts

A Magisterial Appreciation for a Magisterial Effort: Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan

A Magisterial Appreciation for a Magisterial Effort: Fadiman's Lifetime Reading Plan

Nathan Payne at The Lamp