Coffee with Hardcore Literature (Q&A AMA Episode III) (Patreon)

Thank you all for your great questions, insightful comments, beautiful meditations, and deep-reading the Great Books with such gusto.

I sat down with a coffee to have a bookish chat with you.

We covered a lot of fun topics. We're talking Halloween reading rituals, Proustian phantasmagoria, breaking the back of difficult books, the collective unconscious, the hero's journey, and much more.

Wherever you find yourself right now, I hope you can claim some relax time with a nice drink so you can join me for 'Coffee with Hardcore Literature'.

Video Timestamps

• 2:00 should you read the introduction to a book?
• 4:00 why did you choose Persuasion?
• 7:30 Hesse, Siddharta, and the hero's journey
• 9:00 the insight that comes from depression, pain, and grief
• 11:00 following your call to adventure
• 13:00 the attachment to mythological stories (and Marvel superhero movies)
• 15:00 the collective unconscious at the moment
• 16:00 a Proustian tangent on phantasmagoria and magic lanterns
• 17:40 fun Halloween book club reading plans
• 19:00 solitary vs communal reading
• 20:00 the story of how Frankenstein came to be written
• 21:00 the Hardcore Literature story writing competition
• 22:00 Lydia Davis vs Moncrieff-Kilmartin
• 24:22 Caroline, and book-sellers tutting at Proust
• 27:00 how to break the back of difficult books
• 29:00 the beauty of reader comments
• 30:00 showing you some books I recently picked up
• 30:30 Ray Bradbury and Roald Dahl
• 31:20 recommended short story anthology
• 33:00 showing you my teaching copies (and bookshelf)

If you haven't seen the other Q&A videos yet, they can be found here:

• Coffee with Hardcore Literature (I)
• Coffee with Hardcore Literature (II) 

And, as always, if you want me to answer any questions in the next one, just let me know either in a comment or PM.

Happy reading, everybody!