Marianne Janack's reading recommendations & some philosophy
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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout:
The opening epigram of Elizabeth Strout’s latest book is from Carl Jung: “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain view...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Reading
In a recent article in The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch warned that the end of reading had come to an end—that the period of literacy which had briefly appeared, disappeared and reappeared on the historical scene and which had fostered democrat...
What's So Great About the Great Books?
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Puzzles and meanings
The introduction to the version of Georges Perec’s Thoughts of Sorts that I’ve been reading is written by Margaret Drabble, one of my favorite authors. In her introduction, Drabble frames the book with the claim, “Georges Perec was a writer...
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Disneyland and the Rise of Automation: How Technology Created the Happiest Place on Earth by Roland Betancourt. Princeton University Press. 416 pages. 2026
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I teach philosophy at Hamilton College and also have an MFA in creative writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop.
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