Ep 13 - How to Read Deeply - a podcast by Benjamin McEvoy

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)

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