Hello and welcome back to Hardcore Literature.

Wherever you're listening to this right now, in this crazy world of ours, I hope I find you well.

This is a bit of a special show to quickly tell you about the Hardcore Literature Book Club.

You guys are amazing.

You've been asking for a book club suggesting specific literary lectures and book series and asking for a way

to support hardcore literature. You've shared your reading adventure and insights with me and I am so

grateful to have such a wonderful group of friends filled with nuanced, sensitive, intelligent thinkers

who love the great books. And you can now support

hardcore literature, directly resulting in more shows, exclusive content, my endless love, and become

part of a book club dedicated to deep reading and living the great books together.

Listeners and readers have been asking for a book club for a little while now,

and I've finally put one in place.

It's been a lot of work, but it's already been really thoroughly rewarding,

and I'm excited for it to kick off.

As you may know, the first book we'll be reading together is Tolstoy's Anna Karenina,

and we'll be doing a slow, deep reading of the novel over

eight to ten weeks. You'll also get supplementary reading lists for each week, which is

modelled on the reading lists, our Oxford tutors used to give us for our tutorials. The first week

we'll have us exploring Plato, P Peter, Pushkin, Mill, Mozart, Strauss, Baudelaire,

and many more.

And there will be a bunch of tasks and assignments with the aim of deepening your reading journey

and connecting you with the themes and characters of the work.

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