What Is "Art Of Conversation" For?
An updated vision of where this project is going and how we will do it. “I like people to express themselves heartily, their words...
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Books
In Praise of Comic Books
On what makes comic books special, and an argument against calling them "graphic novels". When I was growing up, comic books were a major...
Do Facts Matter in Fiction?
On objective facts, subjective experience, and whether authenticity is more useful than truth in art. “Kind reader, with keen judgment...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Reader
How good reading brings us closer to others, and how efforts to personalise all the settings on our lives make us lonelier – and more...
Course Correction: Obstacles to reading
On the things that get in the way of reading, and some possible methods of clearing those obstacles. I’m a sucker for the charm of New...
The Virtues of Action in Dante's "Inferno"
On the active pursuit of "knowledge and excellence", and how the road to Hell is never hard to find. 1. It’s a commonly proscribed trope...
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