HeyJaredDo You Even Lit?
stemcel tragics use THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP to read literary classics
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Herzog Part II: Great men take on the potato (opens the original)
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Wrapping up Saul Bellow's Herzog, where the going gets tough and the tough take baths. First up, the failed murder. Herzog gets his dad's old revolver, works himself into a state of total conviction that killing his ex-wife Madeleine and her lover is not just justified but righteous, and then loses his nerve at the last moment while watching the guy give his daughter a bath. A brothers K rerun? Up next, potato love: Herzog's own dismissive term for humble, unglamorous sentimentality. The stuff h
Saul Bellow's Herzog Part I: How dare you make me sleep with your wife (opens the original)
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"If I'm out of my mind, that's okay with me." Part 1 of our dive into Moses Herzog's breakdown. Like all the best books, Herzog follows a manic academic, freshly dumped by his second wife for his own one-legged best friend, who processes the whole disaster by firing off unsent letters to everyone from his mother to Eisenhower to Spinoza. We get a peak into the 1964 version of the suffering olympics, which Rich obviously tries to tie back to New Zealand MPs and Nietzschean slave morality. Plus: h
Middlemarch FINALE: It's OK to be mid (opens the original)
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"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts." — Middlemarch The DYEL boys finally finished George Eliot's Middlemarch and finally answered the question of what this thing is about. At least we think we did: A 900-page long cope on being mid. Updated Website: We unveil the new Do You Even Lit website: doyouevenlit.com. It now has searchable tags by theme, book, and thinker and a breakdown of our most biggest obsessions: Christianity, David Foster Wallace, signalling, dea
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: Wearing Homer as a skin suit (opens the original)
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Rich reflects on his truly deranged reaction to the film, after entering a manic state and staying up all night penning a 2500 word rant. Meanwhile Cam had a nice time at the cinema and gives it a soft seven. Benny liked it too, until he thought about it, and is now hopelessly hung up on whether you can fairly judge an adaptation of something you know so well. Just after we recorded, Emily Wilson came out swinging with a review in the London Review of Books, in which she shares many of our disap
The Tragedy of Othello: Cucked by the green-eyed monster (opens the original)
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. Tackling Shakespeare's 1604 play Othello. It goes a lot better than last time, altho Rich gets a bit of a fright when the lead actor comes out in blackface. Othello the outsider: Was interracial marriage an uncrossable divide for a man of Othello's station? What do we think of race-swapped casting? What exactly is a Moor anyway? A special investigation. Iago as master manipulator: Why does he keep e
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