Welcome back to Hardcore Literature, your favourite book club.

Deep dives into the greatest books ever written.

Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses.

We don't just read the great books. We live them.

Together we'll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy and many more.

We'll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age.

Join us and me, your host, Benjamin McAvoy, on the Reading Adventure of a Lifetime

with Hardcore Literature.

Reading Adventure of a Lifetime is indeed correct. It's been a wild ride. You're listening to

hardcore literature. I'm Benjamin McAvoy. And today I'm going to answer your bookish questions.

Actually, answering your questions is one of the most fun aspects of doing the podcast and of running

the book club. So if you've got any questions for me that you want

to see on the podcast from here on out, maybe we'll do this as a feature at the beginning of each

show, then please email me at ben at benjamin macavoy.com. That's mc-E-V-O-Y. I sent out an

email blast just half an hour or so ago asking people for their

questions and I put a YouTube video up a very quick one just that's going to self-destruct

in the next 20 minutes or so asking people for some some questions basically so if you

haven't already subscribed to the YouTube channel,

maybe go check it out.

It's under my real name, which is Benjamin McAvoy.

And let's get into the questions.

We've got some good ones.

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