How to Read Imaginative Literature (Lessons from Lockdown‪)‬ (Patreon)

The latest episode of the Hardcore Literature Show is live and available from all good pedlars of podcasts:

• iTunes 
• Spotify 

And here are the topic timestamps:

• 0:00 about the Hardcore Literature Book Club
• 2:00 why people found comfort from the classics last year
• 3:00 trauma consolidates wisdom
• 6:00 why lockdown changed us
• 7:00 how to befriend the characters of imaginative literature
• 7:30 how Proust visualised the settings of his favourite novels
• 8:00 how to read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina
• 8:30 how to choose your books
• 9:10 how to collect the special books you want to reread
• 10:00 should you read contemporary YA fiction?
• 10:30 speed reading vs slow reading
• 10:45 how to read “over your head”
• 11:13 how to expand your consciousness with your reading
• 12:00 Murakami, Kafka, Marquez
• 12:40 the law of positivity and strategic detachment
• 13:30 how to live the great books
• 14:20 is reading communal or a solitary activity?
• 14:30 “our social personalities are a creation of the thoughts of other people” (Proust)
• 15:00 how to find your book tribe
• 15:58 does art have social utility?
• 16:20 how to homeschool and get your child reading great books

That's all for now, folks!

Thank you for listening.

- Ben