Tag Archives: Company We Keep

My Brilliant Friend, Cure for Loneliness?

The child perspective in Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” creates a special bond with the reader.

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Better Living through Lit–the Book

In which I talk about my book, which a publisher has just accepted.

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For a Rich Life, Read Widely and Freely

Literature impacts our lives but the influence is best if we read a wide variety of works. Limiting ourselves to just a few authors can warp us.

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Lit Classics, Our Most Valuable Friends

Wayne Booth compares our relationship with books to our relationships with friends. Just as we can judge whether a friendship is good for us, so can we do so with a literary work.

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The Classics, Guides to Our Best Selves

Wayne Booth describes the classics as friends in the deepest and most productive sense of the word.

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