The Companion-Text Method for Beginners
How to find and read secondary sources, the companion-text way
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Dispatches from your local PhD student, where we talk about the books that make us human
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proust girl summer
Reading Notes 1.6: Swann's Way, free to read
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abandon all illusions
Marginal Notes 1.4: Balzac's Lost Illusions
I'd like to beat Sade, but he'd probably enjoy it
Reading Notes 1.3: Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
Literary Theory for Beginners
Literary theory doesn't need to be difficult. Here's a beginner's guide, for free.
Do the French do it better?
Reading notes 1.2: Stendhal's The Red and the Black
read like a grad student (without all the debt)
Introducing Reading notes: a series on how I read.
should you really read ulysses?
it's probably worth it