Issue 18: Lincoln in the Bardo, Joyce’s notebooks, tragedy
‘Desire is the feeling which urges us to go to something and loathing is the feeling which urges us to go from something.'
Issue 17: The Leveret; reading fiction; containers
Why read fiction? As in, why bother? Especially when it comes to ‘hard’ novels (serious-complicated-posh-literary novels). If someone who only reads Simon Sinek or Mark Manson asks you at a party, what’s the point in reading Proust, what should you say?
Issue 16: The Make-Believe, Odyssey, Options
'Every gesture I make is part of a complex code. Everything is part of the ritual.'
Issue 15: Seamus Heaney, Akashic Records, Beginner's Mind
Issue 14: sleepers, beginner’s mind, correspondence, needles
‘In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.’
Issue 13: Bukowski, Knox, and 'authorities'
'How can Proust change your life? Try reading him, for a start.'