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This is why you should read the classics...

B.F. Skinner Book Notes Great Books Italo Calvino Mortimer Jerome Adler On Writing Raymond Queneau Reading Stendhal

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Learning Italo Calvino's Literary Oeuvre

08 October 2018

Anglophone Benito Mussolini Book Notes Ernest Hemingway France Harold Bloom Italian Literature Italo Calvino Martin McLaughlin Menton Mortimer Jerome Adler Second World War Walter Benjamin

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On a mystical journey with Italo Calvino, Marco Polo, and Kublai Khan

25 October 2018

Book Notes Don Draper Gabriel García Márquez Harold Bloom Italian Literature Italo Calvino J.R.R. Tolkien Macau Mad Men The Venetian

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On Taste, Sound, and Smell: Calvino's unfinished business

27 September 2018

Arthur Schnitzler Baz Luhrmann Book Notes Charles Bukowski Cynthia Oznick Harold Bloom Italian Italian Literature Italo Calvino New York Times Stanley Kubrick Thomas Mann

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If on a post-modern novel Italo Calvino

07 November 2018

42nd Street Book Notes Italian Literature Italo Calvino Jay McInerney On Writing Postmodernism

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The Wisdom of Mr Palomar

23 October 2018

Book Notes Constellations Harold Bloom Italian Literature Italo Calvino James Allen Utagawa Hiroshige

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Book Notes: "Marcovaldo" by Italo Calvino

Book Notes Italo Calvino

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Chekhov: You've gotta laugh or you'd cry!

Anton Chekhov Book Notes Comedy Ernest Hemingway Guy de Maupassant Harold Bloom Harvey Pitcher Italo Calvino Ivan Turgenev Mortimer Jerome Adler Oscar Wilde Russian Literature Shakespeare Stephen Fry

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Walter Benjamin's Oeuvre: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

08 October 2018

Art Book Notes Ernest Hemingway Franz Kafka Italo Calvino J.A. Underwood Joe Frost Leonardo da Vinci Marcel Proust Mortimer Jerome Adler Technology Walter Benjamin

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Book Notes: "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson

Book Notes Sherwood Anderson

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On Love: Turgenev Style

24 December 2018

Book Notes Dirk Bogarde Dostoevsky Ernest Hemingway Ivan Turgenev Leo Tolstoy Mumu Pauline Viardot Russian Literature Saudade Short Stories Thomas Mann Virginia Woolf

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Turgenev: The End History and the Last Serf: or, A Satirical Sketch of Sherwood Anderson

Anton Chekhov Book Notes Dostoevsky Ernest Hemingway Gogol Harold Bloom Italo Calvino Ivan Turgenev Leo Tolstoy Martin Luther King Pushkin Russian Literature Serfdom Sherwood Anderson Vladimir Nabokov

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The Great Conversation, not The Great Battle...

24 February 2021

Flâneur Great Books Great Conversation Liberal Arts Liberal Democracy Liberal Education Mortimer Jerome Adler Paul Ramsay Robert M. Hutchins Tony Abbott

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Oscar Wilde on Contradiction: Learning Unintended Lessons Through Art

Aesthetics architecture Aristotle Art Book Notes Harold Bloom Italo Calvino Literature Mortimer Jerome Adler Oscar Wilde Ralph Waldo Emerson Theodore Roosevelt William Morris

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Overcoming Self-Doubt: Stillness is the Key

Albert Camus Amway Book Notes Dale Carnegie Harold Bloom Ikigai Italo Calvino Jack London Ryan Holiday Self-Doubt Sisyphus Stoicism Theodore Roosevelt

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Literary Japan: Kōji's Introduction to Japanese Classics

11 November 2018

Book Notes Japan Library Japanese Literature Juliet Winters Carpenter Katsushika Hokusai Kōji Nakano La Rochefoucauld Mongaku Poetry Saigyō Yatsuhashi Kengyō Yoshida Kenkō

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