Hardcore Literature
Benjamin McEvoy
Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. 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, and Tolstoy. We’ll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.
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Previous episodes
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87 - Ep 72 - The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)Sat, 09 Mar 2024
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86 - Ep 71 - Book Club Schedule for 2024Sun, 24 Dec 2023 - 0h
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85 - Ep 70 - Gothic Literature and the Rise of the VampireSun, 29 Oct 2023 - 0h
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84 - Ep 69 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)Sat, 14 Oct 2023
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83 - Ep 68 - How to Start Writing Literature (Lessons from Great Writers)Wed, 12 Jul 2023
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82 - Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading PracticeSun, 04 Jun 2023
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81 - Ep 66 - The Bookish Q&A Show (Coffee with Hardcore Literature)Wed, 26 Apr 2023
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80 - Ep 65 - How to Possess Poetry by MemorySat, 22 Apr 2023
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79 - Ep 64 - How to Approach a Special Author ProjectMon, 03 Apr 2023
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78 - Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great BooksWed, 22 Mar 2023
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77 - Ep 62 - Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)Mon, 20 Mar 2023 - 0h
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76 - Ep 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)Sat, 25 Feb 2023
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75 - Ep 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)Wed, 22 Feb 2023
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74 - Ep 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)Tue, 14 Feb 2023 - 0h
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73 - Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)Sun, 29 Jan 2023
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71 - Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great LiteratureWed, 02 Nov 2022 - 0h
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70 - Ep 56 - How to Read in Times of NeedFri, 01 Jul 2022
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69 - Ep 55 - Shakespeare's ComediesTue, 14 Jun 2022
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68 - Ep 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)Mon, 02 May 2022
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67 - Ep 53 - The Crucible (Arthur Miller)Sun, 27 Mar 2022 - 0h
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66 - Ep 52 - Reflecting on the Great Books on my BirthdayThu, 17 Mar 2022 - 0h
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65 - Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)Tue, 22 Feb 2022
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64 - Ep 50 - Reading Goals for 2022Fri, 31 Dec 2021 - 0h
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63 - Ep 49 - A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)Thu, 23 Dec 2021
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62 - Ep 48 - Book Club Schedule for 2022Wed, 22 Dec 2021 - 0h
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61 - Ep 48 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)Fri, 10 Dec 2021
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60 - Ep 47 - How the Great Books Saved My LifeMon, 08 Nov 2021 - 0h
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59 - Ep 46 - How to Write a Book ReviewMon, 01 Nov 2021 - 0h
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58 - Ep 45 - How to Overcome the Challenges Facing Readers TodayFri, 15 Oct 2021
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57 - Ep 44 - Don Quixote (Cervantes)Sun, 03 Oct 2021 - 0h
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56 - Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)Wed, 22 Sep 2021
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55 - Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)Sun, 19 Sep 2021 - 0h
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54 - Ep 41 - Our Favourite Comfort ReadsWed, 15 Sep 2021
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53 - Ep 40 - Shakespeare's TragediesWed, 18 Aug 2021
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52 - Ep 39 - Literature I'm Loving Right NowThu, 12 Aug 2021 - 0h
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51 - Ep 38 - The Bhagavad GitaFri, 30 Jul 2021
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50 - Ep 37 - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsWed, 21 Jul 2021
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49 - Ep 36 - How to Read World Literature in TranslationSun, 11 Jul 2021 - 0h
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48 - Ep 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)Mon, 05 Jul 2021 - 0h
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47 - Ep 34 - The Poems of Emily DickinsonThu, 01 Jul 2021 - 0h
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46 - Ep 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)Tue, 15 Jun 2021 - 0h
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45 - Ep 32 - Lessons Learned from Running a Book ClubTue, 15 Jun 2021 - 0h
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44 - Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)Sun, 13 Jun 2021
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43 - Ep 30 - Answering Your Bookish Questions - The Q&A ShowFri, 28 May 2021 - 0h
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42 - Ep 29 - How to Live the Great Books (Approaches to Literature)Wed, 12 May 2021 - 0h
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41 - Ep 28 - The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)Mon, 03 May 2021
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40 - Ep 27 - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)Fri, 09 Apr 2021 - 0h
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39 - Ep 26 - Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)Wed, 07 Apr 2021
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38 - Ep 25 - The Short Stories of Ernest HemingwayWed, 10 Mar 2021
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37 - Ep 24 - How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)Wed, 03 Mar 2021 - 0h
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