Hardcore Literature

A respite from the ossifying, thought-deadening shallowness of what passes for ‘cultured engagement’ with books these days. Thank you for reading carefully and thinking deeply.

Benjamin provides a podcast which serves as a springboard into your own subconscious. With the great authors serving as windows through which to understand yourself, Benjamin builds links and opens new outlooks onto yourself, and that of humanity. So refreshing to have someone who dives deeper in a time of reductive doom scrolling. Well done!

Wow, about one month ago I found myself writing my personal statement to send off to uni for when I apply for English Literature, and beyond read, thinking, investigating their is only so much I can say I do with a book, and the truth is I’m 16 and a normal person I’m trying my hardest but I don’t understand half the stuff a literature scholar would, I don’t understand the bard or the poetry of John Donne but that doesn’t mean I don’t love it. And listening to this podcast changed my whole outlook on prose, it helps me understand so much about my passion and the books I am too frightened to pick up, whatever I love this podcast I listen to it in the morning before school, when I return form school, in the evenings on my weekends and everywhere I go their is so much I’ve listened to since I’ve discovered it and I love it dearly. The man who creates these podcasts must be a genius, or just a genius in literature.

Benjamin single handedly got me hooked on classic literature.