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Hardcore Literature

Benjamin McEvoy

Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don’t just read the great books - we live them. Together we’ll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We’ll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.

96 - Ep 81 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)

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96 - Ep 81 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
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Wed, 06 Nov 2024 - 1h 19min
95 - Ep 80 - How to Read Poetry for Personal Growth
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Sat, 19 Oct 2024 - 1h 31min
94 - Ep 79 - The Tragedy of Othello (Shakespeare)
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Wed, 02 Oct 2024 - 1h 21min
93 - Ep 78 - The Essays of Montaigne
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Thu, 01 Aug 2024 - 1h 39min
92 - Ep 77 - Tartuffe (Molière)
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Mon, 15 Jul 2024 - 1h 24min
91 - Ep 76 - Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
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Tue, 02 Jul 2024 - 1h 00min
90 - Ep 75 - King Lear (Shakespeare)
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Tue, 25 Jun 2024 - 1h 32min
89 - Ep 74 - Faust (Goethe)
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Fri, 03 May 2024 - 52min
88 - Ep 73 - The Prince (Machiavelli)
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Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 1h 29min
87 - Ep 72 - The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)
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Sat, 09 Mar 2024 - 1h 20min
86 - Ep 71 - Book Club Schedule for 2024
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Sun, 24 Dec 2023 - 53min
85 - Ep 70 - Gothic Literature and the Rise of the Vampire
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Sun, 29 Oct 2023 - 47min
84 - Ep 69 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
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Sat, 14 Oct 2023 - 1h 00min
83 - Ep 68 - How to Start Writing Literature (Lessons from Great Writers)
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Wed, 12 Jul 2023 - 1h 14min
82 - Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice
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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 the mind & simple contemplation 13:00 imagination, empathy, applying the senses 14:00 threefold present & eternity in the text 16:00 mindfulness in our everyday lives 17:00 future as string of present moments 19:00 good material for the reading practice 20:00 from Aurelius to Rilke & Tolstoy 22:00 how the practice differs from reading 24:00 how Virginia Woolf read great literature 25:00 why I love reading difficult books 26:00 reading as conversation & act of love 27:00 the ease and joy of the daily practice 28:00 the four steps of my reading practice 32:00 practice walkthrough with Tolstoy 33:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage One 39:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Two 45:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Three 48:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Four 52:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Five 56:00 Tolstoy's Wisdom: Passage Six 59:00 let us know about your practice
Sun, 04 Jun 2023 - 1h 00min
81 - Ep 66 - The Bookish Q&A Show (Coffee with Hardcore Literature)
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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 a master plan behind the syllabus? 53:15 can you riff on Tolstoy’s sense of love? 58:35 how to love someone for who they are? 1:03:40 character names in Shakespeare? 1:06:05 three writers you would have coffee with? 1:07:48 what is your literary guilty pleasure? 1:09:00 what is the greatest decade ever for novels? 1:11:00 what podcasts do you enjoy listening to? 1:13:17 are you concerned about artificial intelligence? 1:19:30 a difficult dilemma: rereads or new reads? 1:22:10 what are your favourite Japanese works? 1:24:20 interest in a behind-the-scenes show 1:25:00 tell us more about Shakespeare’s audience? 1:30:59 supposedly great books that are overrated? 1:33:16 how to deal with feelings of overwhelm? 1:39:10 do books appeal to different temperaments? 1:41:47 your elevator pitch for getting into literature? 1:46:55 what are the essential book club lectures? 1:52:30 recommendations for book club newcomers 1:53:00 talking about the questions for the next show
Wed, 26 Apr 2023 - 1h 53min
80 - Ep 65 - How to Possess Poetry by Memory
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Sat, 22 Apr 2023 - 1h 02min
79 - Ep 64 - How to Approach a Special Author Project
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Mon, 03 Apr 2023 - 1h 07min
78 - Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 - 1h 26min
77 - Ep 62 - Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
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Mon, 20 Mar 2023 - 59min
76 - Ep 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)
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Sat, 25 Feb 2023 - 1h 16min
75 - Ep 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 Lear, and Macbeth, and sparkling comedies like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, and Much Ado About Nothing.
In addition to Shakespeare, we have extensive lectures for writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, Jane Austen, Cormac McCarthy, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and many more.
Across the course of 2023, we are journeying through War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Orlando, The Count of Monte Cristo, Invisible Man, The Lord of the Rings, the short stories of Alice Munro, Jane Eyre, Paradise Lost, Gravity’s Rainbow, and much more.
You will be warmly welcomed to our little literary oasis!
Happy reading, and have a lovely day.
- Benjamin
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 - 1h 47min
74 - Ep 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)
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Tue, 14 Feb 2023 - 41min
73 - Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)
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Sun, 29 Jan 2023 - 1h 07min
71 - Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great Literature
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Wed, 02 Nov 2022 - 55min
70 - Ep 56 - How to Read in Times of Need
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Fri, 01 Jul 2022 - 1h 23min
69 - Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies
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Tue, 14 Jun 2022 - 1h 19min
68 - Ep 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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Mon, 02 May 2022 - 1h 07min
67 - Ep 53 - The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
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Sun, 27 Mar 2022 - 58min
66 - Ep 52 - Reflecting on the Great Books on my Birthday
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Thu, 17 Mar 2022 - 59min
65 - Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
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Tue, 22 Feb 2022 - 2h 06min
64 - Ep 50 - Reading Goals for 2022
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Fri, 31 Dec 2021 - 44min
63 - Ep 49 - A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
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Thu, 23 Dec 2021 - 1h 36min
62 - Ep 48 - Book Club Schedule for 2022
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Wed, 22 Dec 2021 - 18min
61 - Ep 48 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
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Fri, 10 Dec 2021 - 1h 37min
60 - Ep 47 - How the Great Books Saved My Life
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Mon, 08 Nov 2021 - 51min
59 - Ep 46 - How to Write a Book Review
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Mon, 01 Nov 2021 - 45min
58 - Ep 45 - How to Overcome the Challenges Facing Readers Today
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Fri, 15 Oct 2021 - 1h 15min
57 - Ep 44 - Don Quixote (Cervantes)
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Sun, 03 Oct 2021 - 35min
56 - Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Wed, 22 Sep 2021 - 1h 27min
55 - Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)
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Sun, 19 Sep 2021 - 43min
54 - Ep 41 - Our Favourite Comfort Reads
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Wed, 15 Sep 2021 - 1h 24min
53 - Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 - 1h 34min
52 - Ep 39 - Literature I'm Loving Right Now
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Thu, 12 Aug 2021 - 48min
51 - Ep 38 - The Bhagavad Gita
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Fri, 30 Jul 2021 - 1h 14min
50 - Ep 37 - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 - 1h 12min
49 - Ep 36 - How to Read World Literature in Translation
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Sun, 11 Jul 2021 - 43min
48 - Ep 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)
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Mon, 05 Jul 2021 - 38min
47 - Ep 34 - The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Thu, 01 Jul 2021 - 59min
46 - Ep 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
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Tue, 15 Jun 2021 - 35min
45 - Ep 32 - Lessons Learned from Running a Book Club
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Tue, 15 Jun 2021 - 32min
44 - Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)
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Sun, 13 Jun 2021 - 1h 08min
43 - Ep 30 - Answering Your Bookish Questions - The Q&A Show
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Fri, 28 May 2021 - 58min
42 - Ep 29 - How to Live the Great Books (Approaches to Literature)
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Wed, 12 May 2021 - 48min
41 - Ep 28 - The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
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Mon, 03 May 2021 - 1h 09min
40 - Ep 27 - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
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Fri, 09 Apr 2021 - 42min
39 - Ep 26 - Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)
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Wed, 07 Apr 2021 - 1h 05min
38 - Ep 25 - The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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Wed, 10 Mar 2021 - 1h 06min
37 - Ep 24 - How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)
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Wed, 03 Mar 2021 - 34min
36 - Ep 23 - How to Read Imaginative Literature (Lessons from Lockdown)
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Mon, 15 Feb 2021 - 17min
35 - Ep 22 - Join the Hardcore Literature Book Club
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Fri, 12 Feb 2021 - 18min
34 - Ep 21 - What Is Art? (Tolstoy)
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Tue, 26 Jan 2021 - 48min
32 - Ep 20 - Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Tue, 05 Jan 2021 - 56min
31 - Ep 19 - Reading and Life Goals for 2021
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Sun, 27 Dec 2020 - 46min
30 - Ep 18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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Tue, 15 Dec 2020 - 51min
29 - Ep 17 - The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
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Tue, 24 Nov 2020 - 28min
28 - Ep 16 - Richard III (Shakespeare)
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Thu, 12 Nov 2020 - 1h 05min
26 - Ep 15 - The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & Literature
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Fri, 23 Oct 2020 - 54min
24 - Ep 14 - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
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Mon, 28 Sep 2020 - 37min
20 - Ep 12 - How to Talk to Your Shadow: Practical Tips from Jungian Psychology
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Fri, 31 Jul 2020 - 27min
17 - Ep 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.
Wed, 22 Jul 2020 - 1h 00min
16 - Ep 10 - Aristotle's Virtues: Ambition and Good Temper
Today'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.
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 - 32min
15 - Ep 9 - How to Read and Appreciate Short Stories
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 - 31min
12 - Ep 8 - How to Read the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a Year
Thu, 09 Jul 2020 - 14min
10 - Ep 7 - Aristotle's Virtues: Magnificence and Pride
Fri, 26 Jun 2020 - 40min
7 - Ep 6 - Aristotle’s Virtues: Courage, Temperance, Generosity
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Wed, 22 Apr 2020 - 58min
5 - Ep 5 - The Poetry of Rumi
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Mon, 13 Apr 2020 - 1h 19min
4 - Ep 4 - The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
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Thu, 26 Dec 2019 - 31min
3 - Ep 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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Tue, 19 Nov 2019 - 51min
2 - Ep 2 - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 - 41min
1 - Ep 1 - The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
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Wed, 30 Oct 2019 - 49min

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