As a student of literature, always a beginner, and one interested in a wide variety of wisdom literature or philosophical texts, certain books of historical and literary significance have crossed my radar, have maybe even made it into the home library, but have never been read, you know, famous philosophical or spiritual texts like theContinue reading “The Book I Read: Wisdom Lit, the Power of Allusion, Lincoln in the Bardo, and the President’s Hat”
Monthly Archives: August 2021
The Book I Read: Podcasts (Apparently, They’re Not All That Easy To Do)
Recently, Sara Silverman did a stint as a guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live. One of the last bits in one of her monologues was an uproariously funny satire on the proliferation of podcasts in the world. It was brilliant. I laughed out loud, but it also made me seriously self-conscious. The bit was framedContinue reading “The Book I Read: Podcasts (Apparently, They’re Not All That Easy To Do)”
The Book I Read: Books as Gifts, The Hidden Life of Fifteen Dogs, and Budgie Danger
I have admitted in previous entries that I am a relatively slow reader. I read well, I think, but slowly. Perhaps I’m a better reader because of it. But because I love reading, and because I have the English major’s obsession with a list of things I want to (and think I should) read, IContinue reading “The Book I Read: Books as Gifts, The Hidden Life of Fifteen Dogs, and Budgie Danger”
Introducing: The Book I Read (a podcast by Michael Jarmer Writer Guy)
(What follows is a text version of the first Michael Jarmer Writer Guy podcast. It’s gonna be short and sweet–a tiny little trailer to introduce listeners to the new thing and to spell out a few tantalizing descriptors and some enticements for listening and subscribing and perhaps even donating to the cause. If you’re justContinue reading “Introducing: The Book I Read (a podcast by Michael Jarmer Writer Guy)”
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