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Plain Reading is a conversation about books, reading, words, and the ideas and enthusiasms they inspire. We love talking to writers and readers of all sorts, and post a new episode every other week.

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Hey, hey! Episode 3 is up! Check out my conversation with evolutionary biologist Zack Blount, who lets us know why need to read widely—and tells us what makes for good and a good .

https://plainreading.libsyn.com/reading-for-the-sake-of-science-zachary-blount

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Hey, one of December's guests and I were just talking about Christian Wiman—and there he is in a recent article on, among other things, and poetic in a dying world. Right now, I'm appreciating this assertion: "There is severe contradiction between our need to speak of ultimate things and the immunity of those things from speech. There is also, sometimes, and rescue."

https://theamericanscholar.org/a-burning-world/

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Good LORD—Kevin Lambert's Querelle of Roberval was incredible. As I said on my (personal, not ) Goodreads/LibraryThing accounts this morning, I imagine Lambert as being an entirely fearless author.

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One reason I love the New York Review of Books is that I come across things I never knew would move me. Behold, in Daniel M. Lavery's discussion of a new one from Jacques Pépin was this thought to remember: "'You don't have to try to be different,' Pépin reassures readers... because the great gift of excellence, of following through... and becoming deeply familiar with rules, habits, and best practices, is that individuality will invariably shine through."

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The purest definition of a win-win. But... why can't the kids sit outside the dogcage? 🤔

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@NickEast @reading @bookstodon @kidlit When I come across a great passage, I read it aloud to the little money plant the neighborhood garden center gave me. (And when spring rolls around again, I fully plan on helping my fig tree wake up by reading him some Carl Sandburg. He is a Chicago hardy, after all.)

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If season has you in the mood for a creepy mix of a Grimm-like and, say, situations the House of Atreus might well understand, check out Nathan Grover's new over at Ergot!

https://www.ergot.press/authors/Nathan_Grover/Juniper_Tree:_A_Cutting

(For some reason, I'm tickled by the phrase "He won’t even discuss giving me the apple.")

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Man, I can't wait to get my hands on Werner Herzog's new book:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/filmmaker-werner-herzog-writes-about-his-prolific-and-varied-career-in-new-memoir

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