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.'
Issue 12: various books, being argumentative, caffeine
'Smug, rich and inert, we fall below the means test for pity.'
The Mountain (Which Mountain?)
He longs for the one line to give them that they will always remember, that will embrace everything, that will point the way, but he cannot find the line, he cannot recognise it.
Issue 11: does reading have an empathy problem?
It’s been theorised at many points, that art – and in particular, reading fiction – can help to develop increased empathy.
Issue 10: can we still read?
Previously, the bevy of bright-screened distractions which Silicon Valley cooked up have carried only the ‘mere’ risk of distraction. However, LLM usage presents something qualitatively different.