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0:00 thank you for reading along
0:47 Shakespeare’s comedies or tragedies?
3:40 how approach syllabus for your future child?
7:38 how to read in a world of distractions?
10:45 your favourite of Shakespeare’s English histories?
13:32 advice for reading George Eliot’s Middlemarch?
17:31 know one book intimately or a hundred superficially?
19:57 fondest literature travel memory?
20:40 where in the world would you take a literature pilgrimage?
22:12 which work gave you the biggest book hangover?
23:20 have you read Brazilian literature/Clarice Lispector?
24:29 have you read literature from the Balkan region?
25:04 your ranking of the episodes of Joyce’s Ulysses?
27:51 your top three favourite authors? And their favourite works?
29:54 stories as thrilling as The Count of Monte Cristo?
30:55 any classics of hardcore literature you haven’t read?
32:18 what are your thoughts on the value of reading manga?
34:12 have you considered discussing DFW’s Infinite Jest?
36:48 how to encourage young readers in this digital world?
45:10 how did you first start reading?
46:13 how many books have you read so far?
46:20 your favourite quote from a book?
46:54 most valuable lesson from reading great books?
47:39 poetry recommendations for special needs education?
48:55 why take the dust jackets off your books?
49:41 your thoughts on Katz’s translation of Dostoyevsky?
49:58 what are your favourite candy reads?
50:37 your favourite contemporary writers at the moment?
50:55 what did you do when Cormac McCarthy died?
51:20 is it normal to cringe at your old marginalia?
52:11 have you felt the call of a book you haven’t read before?
53:00 which literary movement do you most identify with?
54:37 how much time do you spend on content vs reading?
56:25 how do you approach a book you’ve never heard about?
58:42 some of your favourite non-fiction books?
59:03 what is your research process like for content?
1:02:02 who are your favourite prose stylists?
1:02:21 your thoughts on FOMO with contemporary fiction?
1:05:43 would you prefer a story with style or substance?
1:06:52 what are the practicalities of your reading?
1:11:11 how to manage reading for fun vs university?
1:12:00 how to avoid burnout when studying literature?
1:14:29 what would you do differently at university?
1:17:00 when will the reading schedule for 2024 be announced?
1:17:48 a heartfelt thank you to you all