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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
The mythologist Joseph Campbell said that ‘the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections.’
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better
Tossing facts at an unengaged student is like throwing pebbles to dent a stone wall. It’s like trying to get Fred Williams to absorb tennis.
David Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
“Balzac, Dante, Joseph Conrad, Dickens,”
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
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
His work is one of the great literary accounts of the psychic costs of reification, of what he calls “a peculiar malign abstractness” within the culture of mid-twentieth-century capitalism.