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The well-known critic Harold Bloom edited a series of books entitled Bloom’s BioCritiques, which features a variety of his fellow critics discussing an author’s body of work.
Susan Reynolds • Fire Up Your Writing Brain
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
William Shakespeare, The Modern Shakespeare (editor) • Hamlet
Bloom. Western Canon
sonic.netAs Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is “to be free of other selves.”
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Some writers like John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and William
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.... See more
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: How to time travel, the power of reading, and being grateful when you don't have what you want
According to Goethe, Byron’s poetical power eclipsed all other mortals, and he was not held back by petty morality, being possessed of a virtue of which the bourgeoisie had no conception.