Articles about fiction and non-fiction books and how they can help us live a better life.
. I like to think of this blog as a constantly updated map of my reading adventures, where each new stop offers an opportunity to ask one of my favorite authors how to live a good life. At the same time, I also view it as a constantly evolving anthology of my intellectual pursuits, where … Read more
We already know why the Socratic method is important in the age of AI. But the book of the same name claims that Socrates himself means little to many readers. They mostly associate him, its author notes, with the saying that the unexamined life is not worth living. And they know that his rational inquiries … Read more
. When I first got my hands on ChatGPT, I asked it to write in the prose style of my favorite authors, such as C.S. Lewis, George Orwell, and Ernest Hemingway. I did it because I was looking for the best way to express my own thoughts and improve as a writer. You may have … Read more
. What is a good prose style? When I think about this question, I’m reminded of George Orwell, who famously named aesthetic enthusiasm as one of the “four great motives” for writing. For him, it was the “perception of beauty in … words and their arrangement” and the “pleasure in the impact of one sound … Read more