Be True: Life in Literature
John TessitoreA writer, poet, and liberal arts advocate, upholding the values of humanism in an inhuman age.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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Courage in the Midst
Allow me to make a mountain out of a molehill. That is one of our prerogatives as writers, after all, to inflate our experiences until they almost burst. Almost. And then to offer them up as exemplars.
Here’s the molehill: I’ve participate...
Nepo Babies in Power: Episode 154
John reads Lord Byron’s poem “Damætas.” He also discusses the corrupting privileges of leisure, the distortions of wealth and access, the first aristocratic vampire, and the U.S. midterm elections.
In each episode of Be True: Life in Liter...
Higher Ed and the American Corporation
Sometimes I think about all of the unpublished pages filling recycling bins around the world. Pages and pages of writing cut from the final versions of novels, essays, and poems. Cut because what those pages said was better said elsewhere,...
World Youth Wandering the Desert: Episode 153
John reads “Ozymandias,” a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. He also discusses the recent riots in Europe, the rise and fall of societies, how adults are failing children, and how power isn’t permanent.
In each episode of Be True: Life in Lite...
Seamus Heaney’s Dignity
We’re all a bit flimsy and there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re the sum of our recollections, after all, creatures born in and nurtured by memories, and memory is notoriously unreliable.
The scenes and images we carry with us—often un...
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