The Book Club Q&A Show (Coffee: Episode XXII) (Patreon)

Thank you all for your wonderful questions. They have, once again, resulted in a great bookish conversation for this episode of our Q&A Show.

Topics of discussion include: how to focus on difficult works, Dead Poets Society, turning pain into art, modern adaptations of classic works, literary censorship, solitary reading, learning to love Dickens, and much more.

Feel free to jump to any topic/question you’re most interested in by using the timestamps below.

We have a lot of amazing questions, so the ones we didn't get to this time will roll forward into our next show.

Video Timestamps:

• 0:00 reading Tolstoy & Dostoyevsky
• 1:57 how to get students into poetry?
• 10:56 plans for book club events?
• 11:58 your favourite songwriters?
• 13:11 forms of art closest to literature?
• 20:52 impressive contemporary fiction?
• 27:44 how to improve reading focus?
• 35:38 how to handle the solitude of reading?
• 40:03 optimal life stage for reading great books?
• 46:36 your views on censoring literature?
• 51:17 learning to love great authors?
• 57:51 questions for our next show

Thank you all for your great questions, and let us know your thoughts on anything we discussed today.

• What writers required work for you to love?
• What other art forms do you most enjoy?
• What contemporary writers do you love?

And, as always, do let us know if you have any questions about reading great literature for our next Q&A show.

Happy reading, everybody!