Hardcore Literature
Episodes
Ep 90 - How to Live the Great Books: Life-Changing Reading Habits
07 Mar 2026
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Ep 89 - Book Club Schedule for 2026
01 Jan 2026
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Ep 88 - Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
07 Dec 2025
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Ep 87 - Appreciating Shakespeare on My Birthday
17 Mar 2025
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Ep 86 - Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
23 Feb 2025
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Ep 85 - The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
27 Jan 2025
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Ep 84 - Book Club Schedule for 2025
30 Dec 2024
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Ep 83 - Reflecting on Reading the Great Books in 2024
29 Dec 2024
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Ep 82 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
23 Dec 2024
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Ep 81 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
06 Nov 2024
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Ep 80 - How to Read Poetry for Personal Growth
19 Oct 2024
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Ep 79 - The Tragedy of Othello (Shakespeare)
02 Oct 2024
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Ep 78 - The Essays of Montaigne
01 Aug 2024
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Ep 77 - Tartuffe (Molière)
15 Jul 2024
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Ep 76 - Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
02 Jul 2024
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Ep 75 - King Lear (Shakespeare)
25 Jun 2024
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Ep 74 - Faust (Goethe)
03 May 2024
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Ep 73 - The Prince (Machiavelli)
25 Apr 2024
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Ep 72 - The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)
09 Mar 2024
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Ep 71 - Book Club Schedule for 2024
24 Dec 2023
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Ep 70 - Gothic Literature and the Rise of the Vampire
29 Oct 2023
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Ep 69 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
14 Oct 2023
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Ep 68 - How to Start Writing Literature (Lessons from Great Writers)
12 Jul 2023
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Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice
04 Jun 2023
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Ep 66 - The Bookish Q&A Show (Coffee with Hardcore Literature)
26 Apr 2023
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Ep 65 - How to Possess Poetry by Memory
22 Apr 2023
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Ep 64 - How to Approach a Special Author Project
03 Apr 2023
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Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
22 Mar 2023
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Ep 62 - Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
20 Mar 2023
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Ep 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)
25 Feb 2023
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Ep 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)
22 Feb 2023
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Dear Lovers of Great Literature — Thank you so much for listening to the show. If you would like more Shakespeare discussions, we have a library of ...
Ep 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)
14 Feb 2023
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Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)
29 Jan 2023
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Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great Literature
02 Nov 2022
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Ep 56 - How to Read in Times of Need
01 Jul 2022
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Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies
14 Jun 2022
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Ep 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
02 May 2022
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Ep 53 - The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
27 Mar 2022
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Ep 52 - Reflecting on the Great Books on my Birthday
17 Mar 2022
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Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
22 Feb 2022
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Ep 50 - Reading Goals for 2022
31 Dec 2021
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Ep 49 - A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
23 Dec 2021
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Ep 48 - Book Club Schedule for 2022
22 Dec 2021
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Ep 48 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
10 Dec 2021
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Ep 47 - How the Great Books Saved My Life
08 Nov 2021
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Ep 46 - How to Write a Book Review
01 Nov 2021
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Ep 45 - How to Overcome the Challenges Facing Readers Today
15 Oct 2021
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Ep 44 - Don Quixote (Cervantes)
03 Oct 2021
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Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
22 Sep 2021
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Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)
19 Sep 2021
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Ep 41 - Our Favourite Comfort Reads
15 Sep 2021
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Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies
18 Aug 2021
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Ep 39 - Literature I'm Loving Right Now
12 Aug 2021
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Ep 38 - The Bhagavad Gita
30 Jul 2021
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Ep 37 - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
21 Jul 2021
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Ep 36 - How to Read World Literature in Translation
11 Jul 2021
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Ep 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)
05 Jul 2021
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Ep 34 - The Poems of Emily Dickinson
01 Jul 2021
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Ep 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
15 Jun 2021
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Ep 32 - Lessons Learned from Running a Book Club
15 Jun 2021
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Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)
13 Jun 2021
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Ep 30 - Answering Your Bookish Questions - The Q&A Show
28 May 2021
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Ep 29 - How to Live the Great Books (Approaches to Literature)
12 May 2021
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Ep 28 - The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
03 May 2021
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Ep 27 - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
09 Apr 2021
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Ep 26 - Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)
07 Apr 2021
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Ep 25 - The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
10 Mar 2021
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Ep 24 - How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)
03 Mar 2021
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Ep 23 - How to Read Imaginative Literature (Lessons from Lockdown)
15 Feb 2021
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Ep 22 - Join the Hardcore Literature Book Club
12 Feb 2021
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Ep 21 - What Is Art? (Tolstoy)
26 Jan 2021
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Ep 20 - Shakespeare's Sonnets
05 Jan 2021
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Ep 19 - Reading and Life Goals for 2021
27 Dec 2020
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Ep 18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
15 Dec 2020
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Ep 17 - The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
24 Nov 2020
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Ep 16 - Richard III (Shakespeare)
12 Nov 2020
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Ep 15 - The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & Literature
23 Oct 2020
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Ep 14 - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
28 Sep 2020
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Ep 12 - How to Talk to Your Shadow: Practical Tips from Jungian Psychology
31 Jul 2020
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Ep 11 - Metamorphoses (Ovid)
22 Jul 2020
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Today we're kicking off a new series called 'The Psychological Significance of the Classic Myths', starting with the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus...
Ep 10 - Aristotle's Virtues: Ambition and Good Temper
20 Jul 2020
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Today's Hardcore Literature episode is about Aristotle's ethicsand the virtues of ambition and good temper. We're talking about honour, how to culti...
Ep 9 - How to Read and Appreciate Short Stories
17 Jul 2020
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Ep 8 - How to Read the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a Year
09 Jul 2020
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Ep 7 - Aristotle's Virtues: Magnificence and Pride
26 Jun 2020
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Ep 6 - Aristotle's Virtues: Courage, Temperance, Generosity
22 Apr 2020
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Ep 5 - The Poetry of Rumi
13 Apr 2020
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Ep 4 - The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
26 Dec 2019
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Ep 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
19 Nov 2019
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Ep 2 - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
15 Nov 2019
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Ep 1 - The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
30 Oct 2019
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