Hardcore Literature

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Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don’t just read the great books - we live them. Together we’ll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We’ll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.

Location:

United States

Description:

Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don’t just read the great books - we live them. Together we’ll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We’ll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.

Language:

English

Website:

http://benjaminmcevoy.libsyn.com/website

Episodes

Ep 74 - Faust (Goethe)

5/3/2024

Duration:00:52:19

Ep 73 - The Prince (Machiavelli)

4/25/2024

Duration:01:29:10

Ep 72 - The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)

3/9/2024

Duration:01:20:59

Ep 71 - Book Club Schedule for 2024

12/24/2023

Duration:00:53:48

Ep 70 - Gothic Literature and the Rise of the Vampire

10/29/2023

Duration:00:47:10

Ep 69 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)

10/14/2023

Duration:01:00:02

Ep 68 - How to Start Writing Literature (Lessons from Great Writers)

7/12/2023

Duration:01:15:00

Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice

6/4/2023

Duration:01:00:18

Ep 66 - The Bookish Q&A Show (Coffee with Hardcore Literature)

4/26/2023

If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin Timestamps: 0:00 expressing my gratitude for you 3:31 how to find meaning in our lives? 20:44 advice on keeping a commonplace book? 27:00 your thoughts on French Literature? 32:37 your favourite films and shows? 40:42 entry recommendations for big classics? 45:20 your process for making connections? 51:30 a master plan behind the syllabus? 53:15 can you riff on Tolstoy’s sense of love? 58:35 how to love someone for who they are? 1:03:40 character names in Shakespeare? 1:06:05 three writers you would have coffee with? 1:07:48 what is your literary guilty pleasure? 1:09:00 what is the greatest decade ever for novels? 1:11:00 what podcasts do you enjoy listening to? 1:13:17 are you concerned about artificial intelligence? 1:19:30 a difficult dilemma: rereads or new reads? 1:22:10 what are your favourite Japanese works? 1:24:20 interest in a behind-the-scenes show 1:25:00 tell us more about Shakespeare’s audience? 1:30:59 supposedly great books that are overrated? 1:33:16 how to deal with feelings of overwhelm? 1:39:10 do books appeal to different temperaments? 1:41:47 your elevator pitch for getting into literature? 1:46:55 what are the essential book club lectures? 1:52:30 recommendations for book club newcomers 1:53:00 talking about the questions for the next show

Duration:01:53:55

Ep 65 - How to Possess Poetry by Memory

4/22/2023

Duration:01:02:25

Ep 64 - How to Approach a Special Author Project

4/3/2023

Duration:01:07:13

Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books

3/22/2023

Duration:01:26:59

Ep 62 - Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)

3/20/2023

Duration:00:59:31

Ep 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)

2/25/2023

Duration:01:16:56

Ep 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)

2/22/2023

Dear Lovers of Great Literature — Thank you so much for listening to the show. If you would like more Shakespeare discussions, we have a library of lectures, guided readings, and bookish content at the Hardcore Literature Book Club at Patreon.com/HardcoreLiterature We are currently reading through the complete works of Shakespeare over the course of the year, and the discussion is incredibly rich and exciting. In our back catalogue, we also have a deep dive lecture series into twelve specially curated masterpieces from William Shakespeare. This includes banquets of blood like Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, and sparkling comedies like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, and Much Ado About Nothing. In addition to Shakespeare, we have extensive lectures for writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, Jane Austen, Cormac McCarthy, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and many more. Across the course of 2023, we are journeying through War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Orlando, The Count of Monte Cristo, Invisible Man, The Lord of the Rings, the short stories of Alice Munro, Jane Eyre, Paradise Lost, Gravity’s Rainbow, and much more. You will be warmly welcomed to our little literary oasis! Happy reading, and have a lovely day. - Benjamin

Duration:01:47:32

Ep 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)

2/14/2023

Duration:00:41:56

Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)

1/29/2023

Duration:01:07:37

Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great Literature

11/2/2022

Duration:00:55:46

Ep 56 - How to Read in Times of Need

7/1/2022

Duration:01:23:05

Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies

6/14/2022

Duration:01:19:16