The Lit Path

COMING SOON! A podcast about novels that have changed men's lives, with @jackaldane

[The Lit Path @thelitpathpod]

.@JackAldane and guests are preparing to delve into the novel that have altered their perspectives for good.

Here's a taste of what's to come on The Lit Path, and why it matters that men read more fiction.

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[Ioan Marc Jones @ioanmarcjones]

A dream commission. I wrote a long feature for The Guardian on how to read classic novels, with a pic of my whippet Dizzy included for good measure.
https://t.co/7Z9a06p0Ti

[Philip Hensher @PhilipHensher]

I keep wanting to write down MY FIVE FAVOURIT NOVELS which are
1 the diary of a nobody
2 Jilly Cooper Riders
3 Joseph und Seine Brüder
4 What Ho Jeeves
5 More Women Than Men

[🥃Donald Clarke📽️ @DonaldClarke63]

What is it with these men about my age who say they never read fiction any more? Why? Does this seem like a reasonable thing to say?

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

Loved this. Reliable rule of reading fiction is that every time you pick up a book by a mid twentieth century British woman novelist it will turn out to be a banger. I think that era is of the under-appreciated peaks of the history of the novel.

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Yet more reasons, brought to you by @Clavicular0

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Yet more reasons, brought to you by @Clavicular0

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More reasons, with master of mirth @FinTaylorcomedy 👇

@jackaldane

[Philip Hensher @PhilipHensher]

I wrote a piece for @spectator . Lists of great novels are all very well as a parlour game. But what you need to understand the novel is a proper, detailed history. By a curious coincidence....

https://t.co/IKEkOk49sZ

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More reasons, with @PaulMcCartney👇

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More reasons, with @EmmanuelMacron 👇

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More reasons, with @EmmanuelMacron 👇

[Jack Aldane @jackaldane]

Why men should read novels 👇

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Ahead of the first episode of the series, @jackaldane remembers a friend he lost to suicide 10 years ago today.

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Ahead of the first episode of the series, @jackaldane remembers a friend he lost to suicide 10 years ago today.

[a violet so ultra @softchoux]

Link to full: https://t.co/boNrB4jq7u

Also goes to Zadie Smith’s discussion on if an author can (or “should”) write about an experience they haven’t lived themselves.

[Paul Krause @paul_jkrause]

Reading Dickens is entering a world of heart and soul. The passion, the calculation, the determined and ruthless pursuit of power and wealth, memory, childhood, good and evil, truth and lies. Plus, sometimes just reading his prose is delightful as a reader.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"I think literature is a great therapist. Not just because it distracts us from our current problems, from overstimulation and chaos, but above all because it broadens our consciousness."

– Olga Tokarczuk 2018 literature laureate

#WorldBookDay

[James Spiro @JamesSpiro]

Not just “novels” but perhaps THE most famous opening sentence of any novel.

Up there with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

[Lauren McEvatt @LaurenMaeve]

Men probably should have just paid more attention in GCSE English

[Jack Aldane @jackaldane]

Why men should read novels 👇