How to Re-Read
Joseph Epstein at The Lamp
Reading
What Was Literary Fiction?
Dan Sinykin at The Nation
In Defense of Voracious Reading
Philip Bunn at Law & Liberty
How I Read Now
Read Like an Easy Rider
Strolling Through Spines for Solace and Sobriety
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.’” The man with owl-eyed spectacles, The Great Gatsby.
I sit, in a battered, leather chair. It affords me a view of all three ceiling-to-floor bookcases in my study.
What is a Perfect Piece of Knowledge?
An allegory, of sorts
How to Become a Great Man or Woman
For starters, read about the great men and women
Merely by thinking about certain sorts of people at all . . . we become objectively, measurably, more like them, in how we behave, think and feel. Iain McGilchrist
Ask a college professor this question:
“Did Moses write the Torah or did the Torah
Proto-Kerouac
D.H. Lawrence, writing in the early 1920s, about the poetry of Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
“The Open Road. The great home of the Soul is the open road. Not heaven, not paradise. Not 'above'. Not even 'within'. The soul is neither 'above' nor '