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Reading & Books

Why is reading so important today? Is too much reading bad for you? These are some of the questions I try to answer here about one of my favorite pastimes.

José Ortega y Gasset's "The Revolt of the Masses" a Century Later

Moms for Liberty: Book Banning Advocates or Champions of Parental Rights?

Pincher Martin's Awful Afterlife

Lady Chatterley's Lover and D.H. Lawrence's Views on Sex

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Advice on Reading and Writing

D.H. Lawrence Hated Masturbation and Porn (and maybe you should too)

A Look at Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Myrrha Incest Myth

A Few Bukowski Poems to Get You Started

Kim Stanley Robinson and the Difficulties of Interstellar Colonization

Why is Deep Reading Important?

Did Schopenhauer Think Reading is Bad for You? (yes, sort of)

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