After a bit of a hiatus, Tom Roberge and Chad W. Post are back to discuss what we mean when we say that a book is "difficult." They use a range of examples, from Finnegans Wake to Mrs. Dalloway to define a few different categories of reading "difficulty," such as, not being compelled, and having to read a book like a puzzle.
For a Three Percent podcast, this one is pretty serious, and even more interesting than usual. And for those who are interested, here's a list of all the books/artists discussed this week:
- Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
- Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Wolff
- P.T. Anderson's movies
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Hawthorne & Child by Keith Ridgway
- Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris
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