Slow Reading
Daniel WaldenThis is Slow Reading, a newsletter of criticism from a philologist and writer who often has thoughts that his editors aren't sure they want to pay for.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 37 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 25 days ago |
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On Perpetual Studenthood
My friend had an excellent piece in the New York Times recently about the need for professors, and indeed for teachers of all kinds, to stay a little bit weird. A large part of what he means by this is that we need to be unabashed about ou...
Great Books: A Primer
At the end of last week and over the weekend, what I will generously term “a conversation” broke out online about great books pedagogy. I am being generous in calling it a conversation because I think that many participants behaved extremel...
On Two Years of Great Books
Last week I turned in my office keys and my laptop; I still need to return exactly one thing to the university library before I will have discharged all of my obligations, and by the time this post goes up I will probably have done so. This...
On What Teaching Is and Isn't
It’s been quite a while since I last wrote a post for this newsletter, mostly because I’ve been tremendously busy. My last post was about what it’s like to teach again, and I’m still pretty shocked that I get to do what I do. It’s summer br...
On Teaching Again
I’ve begun teaching again; I began drafting this post when the first week of classes was nearly over, and now we are more than halfway through the fall semester. I missed this work a lot. The company of enthusiastic students who are eager t...
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Writer, classicist, literary crank. I write about Catholicism and gay things and I think about memory and poetry.
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