Leaf by Leaf | Q & A: Part IV @LeafbyLeaf | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
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Table of Contents:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:02 - Top 5 literary critics?
00:01:18 - First favorite book as a kid?
00:01:26 - Theology bookshelf tour?
00:01:42 - Movies? Which ones?
00:02:28 - The Pale King?
00:03:36 - When did you start reading literary fiction?
00:03:45 - Mass market paperbacks?
00:05:00 - Virginia Woolf?
00:05:24 - How do you find books to read?
00:08:02 - Favorite book covers?
00:08:57 - Favorite living Spanish writer?
00:09:34 - Innate v. cultivated talent?
00:10:52 - Beginning of love of reading?
00:12:11 - Books important to worldview and character development?
00:13:07 - How to be selective in reading?
00:15:38 - Secondary texts?
00:16:59 - How to approach The Stranger?
00:18:02 - Nelson DeMille?
00:18:25 - Survey videos?
00:19:10 - Trois Couleurs?
00:19:52 - Leaf by Leaf as PhD replacement?
00:21:21 - Vollmann interview?
00:22:03 - Favorite series as a child?
00:22:21 - Western Core series?
00:22:47 - Pynchon's other novels?
00:23:07 - Reading conditions?
00:23:40 - Next bookshelf tour?
00:23:55 - Coping with life's brevity and multitudes of books?
00:25:07 - Beach or mountains? Forest or desert? Bike or run?
00:25:23 - Magazines, journals, etc.?
00:25:42 - Most difficult book?
00:26:20 - Mandatory high school reading?
00:28:30 - Finnegans Wake?
00:28:56 - What impresses you most?
00:30:08 - Are you writing?
00:30:43 - How to start a reading habit?
00:32:07 - Authors you're looking forward to reading?
00:33:03 - Favorite Latin American writers?
00:33:45 - Favorite female writers?
00:34:15 - Books on writing?
00:34:54 - Getting into serious literature?
00:36:33 - Favorite comedy?
00:36:57 - Rereading list?
00:38:02 - Simultaneous reading? Malcolm Lowry?
00:38:38 - Will you read my manuscript?
00:40:32 - Post-Its, marginalia, journal?
00:41:17 - Cathartic fiction?
00:42:59 - Joyce?
00:44:04 - Mailer or Vidal?
00:46:20 - Music while reading?
00:46:44 - First masterpiece?
00:47:00 - Where have all the cowboys gone?
00:47:17 - Best living American author?
00:47:43 - Best Danish writer?
00:48:41 - Sot-Weed Factor? Barth?
00:49:22 - Top 3 biographies/memoirs/diaries?
00:50:16 - Favorite short stories?
00:51:45 - Social media and the reading life?
00:58:58 - Favorite painters?
00:59:15 - Merit of complicated books?
01:01:33 - Best sentences?
01:01:50 - Better parenting books?
01:02:34 - Cormac McCarthy?
01:03:38 - Books to film?
01:04:34 - Book that most changed me as a person? As a reader? IT books?
01:05:34 - Female maximalists?
01:06:41 - Ingmar Bergman?
01:07:27 - Book that changed worldview?
01:08:21 - Favorite secondary character?
01:08:34 - Favorite country's literature?
01:09:07 - Books translated from the English?
01:09:32 - Transfer thoughts to video while reading one book?
01:10:02 - Favorite short story collection? Reread on deathbed?
01:10:03 - What makes a masterpiece? Big books and WASP males? What books should everyone read? Good writing from bad writing?
01:29:18 - Grateful to be a native English speaker?
01:30:22 - Top 5 authors?
01:31:14 - Modern writers at the level of Gass, Gaddis, Barth, Pynchon, et al.?
01:31:58 - Which post-1940s books are canonical?
01:32:38 - Most depressing book?
01:32:47 - Living writers' book that will become canonized?
01:33:22 - Worst book?
01:33:36 - What does postmodernism mean?
01:35:54 - Derrida? Poststructuralism? Ding an sich? Meaningful reality beyond language?
01:37:21 - Overrated literature?
01:38:19 - Novel Explosives best novel of 2010s?
01:38:59 - Reading old manuscripts?
01:41:09 - Postmodern tropes a response to readers' growing self-awareness?
01:42:08 - What would you tell people who don't read to convince them the humanities are worth studying?
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Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/leafbyleaf
Table of Contents:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:02 - Top 5 literary critics?
00:01:18 - First favorite book as a kid?
00:01:26 - Theology bookshelf tour?
00:01:42 - Movies? Which ones?
00:02:28 - The Pale King?
00:03:36 - When did you start reading literary fiction?
00:03:45 - Mass market paperbacks?
00:05:00 - Virginia Woolf?
00:05:24 - How do you find books to read?
00:08:02 - Favorite book covers?
00:08:57 - Favorite living Spanish writer?
00:09:34 - Innate v. cultivated talent?
00:10:52 - Beginning of love of reading?
00:12:11 - Books important to worldview and character development?
00:13:07 - How to be selective in reading?
00:15:38 - Secondary texts?
00:16:59 - How to approach The Stranger?
00:18:02 - Nelson DeMille?
00:18:25 - Survey videos?
00:19:10 - Trois Couleurs?
00:19:52 - Leaf by Leaf as PhD replacement?
00:21:21 - Vollmann interview?
00:22:03 - Favorite series as a child?
00:22:21 - Western Core series?
00:22:47 - Pynchon's other novels?
00:23:07 - Reading conditions?
00:23:40 - Next bookshelf tour?
00:23:55 - Coping with life's brevity and multitudes of books?
00:25:07 - Beach or mountains? Forest or desert? Bike or run?
00:25:23 - Magazines, journals, etc.?
00:25:42 - Most difficult book?
00:26:20 - Mandatory high school reading?
00:28:30 - Finnegans Wake?
00:28:56 - What impresses you most?
00:30:08 - Are you writing?
00:30:43 - How to start a reading habit?
00:32:07 - Authors you're looking forward to reading?
00:33:03 - Favorite Latin American writers?
00:33:45 - Favorite female writers?
00:34:15 - Books on writing?
00:34:54 - Getting into serious literature?
00:36:33 - Favorite comedy?
00:36:57 - Rereading list?
00:38:02 - Simultaneous reading? Malcolm Lowry?
00:38:38 - Will you read my manuscript?
00:40:32 - Post-Its, marginalia, journal?
00:41:17 - Cathartic fiction?
00:42:59 - Joyce?
00:44:04 - Mailer or Vidal?
00:46:20 - Music while reading?
00:46:44 - First masterpiece?
00:47:00 - Where have all the cowboys gone?
00:47:17 - Best living American author?
00:47:43 - Best Danish writer?
00:48:41 - Sot-Weed Factor? Barth?
00:49:22 - Top 3 biographies/memoirs/diaries?
00:50:16 - Favorite short stories?
00:51:45 - Social media and the reading life?
00:58:58 - Favorite painters?
00:59:15 - Merit of complicated books?
01:01:33 - Best sentences?
01:01:50 - Better parenting books?
01:02:34 - Cormac McCarthy?
01:03:38 - Books to film?
01:04:34 - Book that most changed me as a person? As a reader? IT books?
01:05:34 - Female maximalists?
01:06:41 - Ingmar Bergman?
01:07:27 - Book that changed worldview?
01:08:21 - Favorite secondary character?
01:08:34 - Favorite country's literature?
01:09:07 - Books translated from the English?
01:09:32 - Transfer thoughts to video while reading one book?
01:10:02 - Favorite short story collection? Reread on deathbed?
01:10:03 - What makes a masterpiece? Big books and WASP males? What books should everyone read? Good writing from bad writing?
01:29:18 - Grateful to be a native English speaker?
01:30:22 - Top 5 authors?
01:31:14 - Modern writers at the level of Gass, Gaddis, Barth, Pynchon, et al.?
01:31:58 - Which post-1940s books are canonical?
01:32:38 - Most depressing book?
01:32:47 - Living writers' book that will become canonized?
01:33:22 - Worst book?
01:33:36 - What does postmodernism mean?
01:35:54 - Derrida? Poststructuralism? Ding an sich? Meaningful reality beyond language?
01:37:21 - Overrated literature?
01:38:19 - Novel Explosives best novel of 2010s?
01:38:59 - Reading old manuscripts?
01:41:09 - Postmodern tropes a response to readers' growing self-awareness?
01:42:08 - What would you tell people who don't read to convince them the humanities are worth studying?
#leafbyleaf #qanda #booktube
