Writer. Contributing Editor at The Discarded Image. Digital Content Strategist. Here's where I publicly explore the books I'm reading, the projects I'm working on, and other current interests. Cultivating the things that matter
“The rise of the novel from an uncertain, fumbling, and generally despised form of cheap popular entertainment to the central and dominant genre of Western literature, all in little more than a century, is one of the more remarkable events in the history of human sensibility. Over the past two hundred years whole generations of readers have learned to measure themselves according to standards set by their favorite books,” writes Alan Jacobs. Thus it’s fair to examine what counsel the great novelists have provided, which is the purpose of Edward Mendelson’s The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life. Read Professor Jacob’s review essay from the March/April issue of Books & Culture here, and then—if you’re brave—come back and answer this question: is there a “deep connection” between the way you read and the way you live?
