Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Books discussed:

Bubbles: A Self-Portrait, by Beverly Sills
Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, by Mary McCarthy
The Art of Love, by Ovid (trans: Rolfe Humphries)
View with a Grain of Sand, by Wysława Szymborska (trans: Claire Cavanaugh & Stanislaw Baranczak)
Letters to Milena, by Franz Kafka (trans: Tania & James Stern)

Forgot to mention the translators of the Kafka volume in the video. My apologies! That’s something I want to get better about.