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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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0:00 thank you for reading along
0:30 what inspired you to start the book club?
5:00 are you anxious when you recommend books?
7:00 do you know the book schedule for 2023?
7:30 how to find original serialised schedules?
13:20 what writer do you have no interest in studying?
14:45 which book would you like to read for the first time again?
16:00 advice on making time for your reading list?
22:50 how to read an author’s entire oeuvre?
29:50 when and how did your love of reading develop?
31:40 advice for difficult post-modern novels?
38:38 reconciling art for art’s sake and Nietzsche?
41:30 favourite writer of all time?
42:00 do you like J.R.R. Tolkien?
42:50 which country’s literature do you most enjoy?
44:45 advice to readers from an Arabic background?
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49:30 what other genres do you spend time with?
51:17 do future writers need to read contemporary fiction?
53:00 are there literary theories you find useful?
55:10 any historical/non-fiction books you enjoyed?
58:20 what specific topic would you wish to deep-dive into?
59:10 could comics be considered great literature?
1:03:19 any recommended jazz albums?
1:04:59 rapid-fire questions
1:05:11 first physical album bought with your own money?
1:05:30 have you thought of starting a podcast?
1:05:40 what makes a great writer great?
1:06:08 what’s your favourite manga?
1:06:20 favourite guidebook for poetry?
1:06:30 thoughts on Harold Bloom’s student?
1:06:40 Zola, Tale of Genji, and children’s literature?
1:07:18 favourite jazz records?
1:07:44 how can I get involved with my culture’s literature?
1:10:30 three most important books?
1:11:00 do you ever read fantasy and science fiction?
1:11:30 have you read any Arabic Literature?
1:12:10 Dickens or Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy?
1:13:00 a heartfelt thank you to you all