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Hardcore LiteratureEp 89 - Book Club Schedule for 2026If 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
2026-01-011h 44Hardcore LiteratureEp 88 - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)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
2025-12-071h 48Hardcore LiteratureEp 87 - Appreciating Shakespeare on My BirthdayIf 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
2025-03-171h 25Hardcore LiteratureEp 86 - Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)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
2025-02-231h 21Hardcore LiteratureEp 85 - The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)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
2025-01-271h 30Hardcore LiteratureEp 84 - Book Club Schedule for 2025If 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
2024-12-301h 00Hardcore LiteratureEp 83 - Reflecting on Reading the Great Books in 2024If 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
2024-12-291h 37Hardcore LiteratureEp 82 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)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
2024-12-231h 27Hardcore LiteratureEp 81 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)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
2024-11-061h 19Hardcore LiteratureEp 80 - How to Read Poetry for Personal GrowthIf 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
2024-10-191h 31Hardcore LiteratureEp 79 - The Tragedy of Othello (Shakespeare)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
2024-10-021h 21Hardcore LiteratureEp 78 - The Essays of MontaigneIf 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
2024-08-011h 39Hardcore LiteratureEp 77 - Tartuffe (Molière)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
2024-07-151h 24Hardcore LiteratureEp 76 - Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)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
2024-07-021h 00Hardcore LiteratureEp 75 - King Lear (Shakespeare)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
2024-06-251h 32Hardcore LiteratureEp 74 - Faust (Goethe)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
2024-05-0352 minHardcore LiteratureEp 73 - The Prince (Machiavelli)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
2024-04-251h 29Hardcore LiteratureEp 72 - The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)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
2024-03-091h 20Hardcore LiteratureEp 71 - Book Club Schedule for 2024If 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
2023-12-2453 minHardcore LiteratureEp 70 - Gothic Literature and the Rise of the VampireIf 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
2023-10-2947 minHardcore LiteratureEp 69 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)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
2023-10-141h 00Hardcore LiteratureEp 68 - How to Start Writing Literature (Lessons from Great Writers)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
2023-07-121h 14Hardcore LiteratureEp 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading PracticeIf 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 a powerful morning reading practice 2:00 on staying consistent with your habits 7:00 how I structure readings of scripture 8:00 my meditative reading of Moby Dick 9:00 reading imaginative literature scripturally 10:00 speed-reading vs subvocalisation 11:00 on rereading resonant passages 12:00 theatre of...
2023-06-041h 00Hardcore LiteratureEp 66 - The Bookish Q&A Show (Coffee with Hardcore Literature)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...
2023-04-261h 53Hardcore LiteratureEp 65 - How to Possess Poetry by MemoryIf 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
2023-04-221h 02Hardcore LiteratureEp 64 - How to Approach a Special Author ProjectIf 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
2023-04-031h 07Hardcore LiteratureEp 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great BooksIf 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
2023-03-221h 26Hardcore LiteratureEp 62 - Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)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
2023-03-2059 minHardcore LiteratureEp 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)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
2023-02-251h 16Hardcore LiteratureEp 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)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...
2023-02-221h 47Hardcore LiteratureEp 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)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
2023-02-1441 minHardcore LiteratureEp 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)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
2023-01-291h 07Hardcore LiteratureEp 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great LiteratureIf 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
2022-11-0255 minHardcore LiteratureEp 56 - How to Read in Times of NeedIf 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
2022-07-011h 23Hardcore LiteratureEp 55 - Shakespeare's ComediesIf 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
2022-06-141h 19Hardcore LiteratureEp 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)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
2022-05-021h 07Hardcore LiteratureEp 53 - The Crucible (Arthur Miller)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
2022-03-2758 minHardcore LiteratureEp 52 - Reflecting on the Great Books on my BirthdayIf 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
2022-03-1759 minHardcore LiteratureEp 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)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
2022-02-222h 06Hardcore LiteratureEp 50 - Reading Goals for 2022If 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
2021-12-3144 minHardcore LiteratureEp 49 - A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)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
2021-12-231h 36Hardcore LiteratureEp 48 - Book Club Schedule for 2022If 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
2021-12-2218 minHardcore LiteratureEp 48 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)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
2021-12-101h 37Hardcore LiteratureEp 47 - How the Great Books Saved My LifeIf 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
2021-11-0851 minHardcore LiteratureEp 46 - How to Write a Book ReviewIf 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
2021-11-0145 minHardcore LiteratureEp 45 - How to Overcome the Challenges Facing Readers TodayIf 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
2021-10-151h 15Hardcore LiteratureEp 44 - Don Quixote (Cervantes)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
2021-10-0335 minHardcore LiteratureEp 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)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
2021-09-221h 27Hardcore LiteratureEp 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)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
2021-09-1943 minHardcore LiteratureEp 41 - Our Favourite Comfort ReadsIf 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
2021-09-151h 24Hardcore LiteratureEp 40 - Shakespeare's TragediesIf 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
2021-08-181h 34Hardcore LiteratureEp 39 - Literature I'm Loving Right NowIf 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
2021-08-1248 minHardcore LiteratureEp 38 - The Bhagavad GitaIf 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
2021-07-301h 14Hardcore LiteratureEp 37 - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsIf 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
2021-07-211h 12Hardcore LiteratureEp 36 - How to Read World Literature in TranslationIf 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
2021-07-1143 minHardcore LiteratureEp 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)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
2021-07-0538 minHardcore LiteratureEp 34 - The Poems of Emily DickinsonIf 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
2021-07-0159 minHardcore LiteratureEp 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)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
2021-06-1535 minHardcore LiteratureEp 32 - Lessons Learned from Running a Book ClubIf 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
2021-06-1532 minHardcore LiteratureEp 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)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
2021-06-131h 08Hardcore LiteratureEp 30 - Answering Your Bookish Questions - The Q&A ShowIf 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
2021-05-2858 minHardcore LiteratureEp 29 - How to Live the Great Books (Approaches to Literature)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
2021-05-1248 minHardcore LiteratureEp 28 - The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)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
2021-05-031h 09Hardcore LiteratureEp 27 - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)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
2021-04-0942 minHardcore LiteratureEp 26 - Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)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
2021-04-071h 05Hardcore LiteratureEp 25 - The Short Stories of Ernest HemingwayIf 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
2021-03-101h 06Hardcore LiteratureEp 24 - How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)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
2021-03-0334 minHardcore LiteratureEp 23 - How to Read Imaginative Literature (Lessons from Lockdown)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
2021-02-1517 minHardcore LiteratureEp 22 - Join the Hardcore Literature Book ClubIf 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
2021-02-1218 minHardcore LiteratureEp 21 - What Is Art? (Tolstoy)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
2021-01-2648 minHardcore LiteratureEp 20 - Shakespeare's SonnetsIf 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
2021-01-0556 minHardcore LiteratureEp 19 - Reading and Life Goals for 2021If 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
2020-12-2746 minHardcore LiteratureEp 18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)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
2020-12-1551 minHardcore LiteratureEp 17 - The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)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
2020-11-2428 minHardcore LiteratureEp 16 - Richard III (Shakespeare)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
2020-11-121h 05Hardcore LiteratureEp 15 - The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & LiteratureIf 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
2020-10-2354 minHardcore LiteratureEp 14 - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)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
2020-09-2837 min
Hardcore LiteratureThe Differences Between Men & Women (Nietzsche)We're talking about everything from whether there are no good men anymore to the best time to start a family. We'll be looking at two books: Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2020-08-2300 minHardcore LiteratureHow to Start a Six-Figure Book BlogToday we're talking about how to start a six-figure book blogging business. Or any kind of online business. Maybe you want to start a profitable art podcast, or make money blogging about biographies, or maybe you want to start an online presence in another domain. We're covering it all. This is a new direction for Hardcore Literature. I wasn't kidding around when I said I wanted to make the poetic practical. And this is as practical as it gets. We're talking everything from start-up costs to search engine optimisation to execution and monetisation strategies. Enjoy...
2020-08-1500 minHardcore LiteratureHow to Read Deeply 3:55 - quantity shouldn't be the measure of success 5:40 - on reading diversely 7:00 - against the gatekeepers of the literary world 12:00 - are you more well-read than Shakespeare? 15:00 - embarrassing story about my intellectual insecurity at Oxford 21:45 - how to write book reviews 22:37 - read books as a mirror 30:00 - the imaginative demands of great literature 32:00 - how to read Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy (controversial advice)
2020-08-0200 minHardcore LiteratureEp 12 - How to Talk to Your Shadow: Practical Tips from Jungian PsychologyIf 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
2020-07-3127 min2020-07-3100 minHardcore LiteratureVolodya (Chekhov Deep Dive)Let’s deep read Anton Chekhov’s short stories together, starting with my personal favourite: ‘Volodya’. If you want the same copy that I’m working from, it’s the Constance Garnett translation from Everyman: The Steppe and Other Stories (Everyman Classics) The format of this deep reading of ‘Volodya’ is this: We’ll read this great short story together, but take breaks for analysis, appreciation, savouring Chekhov’s art and craftsmanship, and we’ll endeavour together to make the poetic practical. Timestamps for analysis breaks: 3:41 – “She was married.” 4:42 – Pure poetic love, guilt, self-hatred, women, mot...
2020-07-2600 minHardcore LiteratureEp 11 - Metamorphoses (Ovid)Today we're kicking off a new series called 'The Psychological Significance of the Classic Myths', starting with the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. We'll discuss the dangers of creating your own reality, taking risks, hubris, arrogance, living a life of virtue, sin, the fall of Lucifer, the Dunning Krueger Effect, poetry from W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams, paintings by Titian and Brueghel, and much more.
2020-07-221h 00Hardcore LiteratureEp 10 - Aristotle's Virtues: Ambition and Good TemperToday's Hardcore Literature episode is about Aristotle's ethicsand the virtues of ambition and good temper. We're talking about honour, how to cultivate the right ambition, snowflake syndrome, the four common types of anger, how to challenge your unconscious underlying beliefs about the world, and much more. And I'm giving away three copies of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Information on how to get hold of a copy at the beginning of the episode and further below.
2020-07-2032 min2020-07-1731 min2020-07-1400 min2020-07-1300 min2020-07-0914 min2020-07-0900 min2020-06-2640 minHardcore LiteratureLetters from a Stoic (Seneca Pt.1)Today we're looking at Seneca's eighty-eighth letter, tying Tolstoy in with him
2020-06-0700 minHardcore LiteratureThus Spoke Zarathustra: Nietzsche's Cave of TarantulasToday we're talking about justice.
2020-06-0500 minHardcore LiteratureEp 6 - Aristotle's Virtues: Courage, Temperance, GenerosityIf 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
2020-04-2258 minHardcore LiteratureStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson)Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read. It consolidated a lot of ideas about the nature of evil and addiction, and moved me so much I was compelled to make the second video on the Hardcore Literature channel about the novella. Episode transcript here: https://benjaminmcevoy.com/dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-evil-us-video/ Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRXOP4uLynQ
2020-04-2200 minHardcore LiteratureEp 5 - The Poetry of RumiIf 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
2020-04-131h 19Hardcore LiteratureEp 4 - The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)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
2019-12-2631 minHardcore LiteratureEp 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)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
2019-11-1951 minHardcore LiteratureEp 2 - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)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
2019-11-1541 minHardcore LiteratureEp 1 - The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)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
2019-10-3049 min