Benjamin McEvoy | Literature I'm Loving Right Now (& Multiple Reads vs Slow Reading) @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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0:00 how I read books
1:00 monogamous reading vs multiple reads
2:30 is it okay to read many books quickly?
4:00 the one Big Read approach
4:50 quantity as a measure of success
5:30 the benefit of slow, deep reading
7:00 deep-reading book club reads
7:55 Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
9:42 Voices from Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
10:03 Klara and the Sun
10:54 Kazuo Ishiguro's oeuvre
11:19 Herman Melville (Library of America)
12:00 an esoteric reading approach
12:40 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
13:30 Oxford World's Classics haul
14:10 Hawthorne, Henry James, Thomas Hobbes
14:35 Aristotle and Plato
14:55 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
15:20 European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
15:52 Auerbach's Mimesis
16:22 Shakespeare's History Plays
17:24 Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
18:00 beautiful limited edition of Blood Meridian
19:00 the Lydia Davis translation of Proust
19:40 the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
20:30 a book I have been reading for years
21:00 Eiji Yoshikawa's Musashi
21:43 George Eliot's Middlemarch
22:15 following the original serialised schedule
23:00 the poetry of Hart Crane
23:54 the novels of Thomas Pynchon
24:20 Iris Murdoch and Edith Wharton
24:44 the novels of Haruki Murakami
25:37 books gifted to me from book club members
25:50 The Buddha and the Terrorist
26:00 Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son
26:30 the stack of plays I'm working through
27:21 The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov)
27:36 Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre
27:57 Their Eyes Were Watching God
28:07 Shakespeare & Dickens
28:22 what are you reading right now?