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read or not read
Today is Shakespeare’s day for “reading well from scratch”. If you’ve known Bard for a while, or if you’ve never read one of his books, I think you’ll really enjoy our conversation. hamlet.
Making this podcast is the most fun I’ve ever had at work (and my work is usually pretty great). I’ve found that spending time on truly great work is exactly the antidote I need to dopamine-fueled algorithms. I plan to read a lot more books this year than I have in the past few years. That’s because the more time you spend on really good books, the more time you’ll want to spend reading (and the less time you’ll spend scrolling).
choose your choice
I think the internet is having a quiet morning due to yesterday’s massive outage. I’d like to share with you what I read and thought today.
- vox‘s Constance Grady explores what passages from Mansfield Park inform Jane Austen’s views on slavery.
- Karl Ove Knausgaard discusses the central issue of The Brothers Karamazov
- editor of fashion Recommendations for the season’s best books, movies, music, and more
- Pulitzer Prize winner Mitchell S. Jackson shares his thoughts on reading Shakespeare for the first time in his 40s
- in atlantic oceanSpencer Kornhaber talks at length about the decline and evolution of criticism and the internet of it all.
- Today is the last day of Powell’s 20% sitewide flash sale.
- Critic AO Scott gives a close reading of one scene. slow horse It captures the greatness of the series. Someday I’ll get to the Slough House books.
