Hey, Knee Krew, it is Stephanie here. This is airing on Tuesday, which feels like day 100,000 that we've all been sitting at home, not going into our jobs if we're able to, sort of social distancing when we can. To me, the idea of staying home and not really having anything to do

means you can finally do all the things that you had sort of always wanted to do,

all those movies you want to watch, all those books you want to read.

For me, there's actually a pile of books in my living room that is piled ever higher with things that, you know, once I get the time, once I'm sort of not for work books that I always sort of think I'll get to at some point but now it

seems like is the time so we're here to give you some very very specific and

practical advice for what you could be reading and watching and doing while you are here in quarantine.

So I'm going to call up Adam Kirsch who came on our show a few months ago to talk about the

end of his Daphyomi cycle as a literary critic.

He's someone who thinks and writes really smartly about

books and Jewish books in particular and so I think he is the person who's going to

give us some good recommendations. You are an author, a writer, a reader.

You just finished the Daphyomi cycle

and you were last on our show to talk about that.

You spend a lot of your time at home reading, I imagine.

I do, yeah, probably more than most people, although it's not my full-time job

sometimes I feel like I wish it were but now I'll get to experience what that's really like

what are you going to read now that you have all the time in the world to read well I

think there are really two approaches.

One approach is you could read about things that are very relevant to what's going on now.

You could read books about disease and plague and calamity.

The other approach would be to go in the opposite direction and try to

read something that'll just take your mind off things and take you as far away from the present as possible.

...