Q & A: Part IV

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Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/leafbyleaf Table of Contents: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:02 - Top 5 literary critics? 00:01:18 - First favorite book as a kid? 00:01:26 - Theology bookshelf tour? 00:01:42 - Movies? Which ones? 00:02:28 - The Pale King? 00:03:36 - When did you start reading literary fiction? 00:03:45 - Mass market paperbacks? 00:05:00 - Virginia Woolf? 00:05:24 - How do you find books to read? 00:08:02 - Favorite book covers? 00:08:57 - Favorite living Spanish writer? 00:09:34 - Innate v. cultivated talent? 00:10:52 - Beginning of love of reading? 00:12:11 - Books important to worldview and character development? 00:13:07 - How to be selective in reading? 00:15:38 - Secondary texts? 00:16:59 - How to approach The Stranger? 00:18:02 - Nelson DeMille? 00:18:25 - Survey videos? 00:19:10 - Trois Couleurs? 00:19:52 - Leaf by Leaf as PhD replacement? 00:21:21 - Vollmann interview? 00:22:03 - Favorite series as a child? 00:22:21 - Western Core series? 00:22:47 - Pynchon's other novels? 00:23:07 - Reading conditions? 00:23:40 - Next bookshelf tour? 00:23:55 - Coping with life's brevity and multitudes of books? 00:25:07 - Beach or mountains? Forest or desert? Bike or run? 00:25:23 - Magazines, journals, etc.? 00:25:42 - Most difficult book? 00:26:20 - Mandatory high school reading? 00:28:30 - Finnegans Wake? 00:28:56 - What impresses you most? 00:30:08 - Are you writing? 00:30:43 - How to start a reading habit? 00:32:07 - Authors you're looking forward to reading? 00:33:03 - Favorite Latin American writers? 00:33:45 - Favorite female writers? 00:34:15 - Books on writing? 00:34:54 - Getting into serious literature? 00:36:33 - Favorite comedy? 00:36:57 - Rereading list? 00:38:02 - Simultaneous reading? Malcolm Lowry? 00:38:38 - Will you read my manuscript? 00:40:32 - Post-Its, marginalia, journal? 00:41:17 - Cathartic fiction? 00:42:59 - Joyce? 00:44:04 - Mailer or Vidal? 00:46:20 - Music while reading? 00:46:44 - First masterpiece? 00:47:00 - Where have all the cowboys gone? 00:47:17 - Best living American author? 00:47:43 - Best Danish writer? 00:48:41 - Sot-Weed Factor? Barth? 00:49:22 - Top 3 biographies/memoirs/diaries? 00:50:16 - Favorite short stories? 00:51:45 - Social media and the reading life? 00:58:58 - Favorite painters? 00:59:15 - Merit of complicated books? 01:01:33 - Best sentences? 01:01:50 - Better parenting books? 01:02:34 - Cormac McCarthy? 01:03:38 - Books to film? 01:04:34 - Book that most changed me as a person? As a reader? IT books? 01:05:34 - Female maximalists? 01:06:41 - Ingmar Bergman? 01:07:27 - Book that changed worldview? 01:08:21 - Favorite secondary character? 01:08:34 - Favorite country's literature? 01:09:07 - Books translated from the English? 01:09:32 - Transfer thoughts to video while reading one book? 01:10:02 - Favorite short story collection? Reread on deathbed? 01:10:03 - What makes a masterpiece? Big books and WASP males? What books should everyone read? Good writing from bad writing? 01:29:18 - Grateful to be a native English speaker? 01:30:22 - Top 5 authors? 01:31:14 - Modern writers at the level of Gass, Gaddis, Barth, Pynchon, et al.? 01:31:58 - Which post-1940s books are canonical? 01:32:38 - Most depressing book? 01:32:47 - Living writers' book that will become canonized? 01:33:22 - Worst book? 01:33:36 - What does postmodernism mean? 01:35:54 - Derrida? Poststructuralism? Ding an sich? Meaningful reality beyond language? 01:37:21 - Overrated literature? 01:38:19 - Novel Explosives best novel of 2010s? 01:38:59 - Reading old manuscripts? 01:41:09 - Postmodern tropes a response to readers' growing self-awareness? 01:42:08 - What would you tell people who don't read to convince them the humanities are worth studying? #leafbyleaf #qanda #booktube