Hardcore Literature
Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don’t just read the great books - we live them. Together we’ll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We’ll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.
S8 E5 · Mon, March 17, 2025
Ep 87 - Appreciating Shakespeare on My Birthday
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S8 E4 · Sun, February 23, 2025
Ep 86 - Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
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S8 E3 · Mon, January 27, 2025
Ep 85 - The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
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S8 E2 · Mon, December 30, 2024
Ep 84 - Book Club Schedule for 2025
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S8 E1 · Sun, December 29, 2024
Ep 83 - Reflecting on Reading the Great Books in 2024
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S7 E12 · Mon, December 23, 2024
Ep 82 - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
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S7 E11 · Wed, November 06, 2024
Ep 81 - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
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S7 E10 · Sat, October 19, 2024
Ep 80 - How to Read Poetry for Personal Growth
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S7 E9 · Wed, October 02, 2024
Ep 79 - The Tragedy of Othello (Shakespeare)
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S7 E8 · Thu, August 01, 2024
Ep 78 - The Essays of Montaigne
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S7 E7 · Mon, July 15, 2024
Ep 77 - Tartuffe (Molière)
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S7 E6 · Tue, July 02, 2024
Ep 76 - Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
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S7 E5 · Tue, June 25, 2024
Ep 75 - King Lear (Shakespeare)
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S7 E4 · Fri, May 03, 2024
Ep 74 - Faust (Goethe)
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S7 E3 · Thu, April 25, 2024
Ep 73 - The Prince (Machiavelli)
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S7 E2 · Sat, March 09, 2024
Ep 72 - The Tragedy of Hamlet (Shakespeare)
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S7 E1 · Sun, December 24, 2023
Ep 71 - Book Club Schedule for 2024
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S6 E12 · Sun, October 29, 2023
Ep 70 - Gothic Literature and the Rise of the Vampire
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S6 E11 · Sat, October 14, 2023
Ep 69 - The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
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S6 E10 · Wed, July 12, 2023
Ep 68 - How to Start Writing Literature (Lessons from Great Writers)
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S6 E9 · Sun, June 04, 2023
Ep 67 - How to Create a Powerful Daily Reading Practice
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S6 E8 · Wed, April 26, 2023
Ep 66 - The Bookish Q&A Show (Coffee with Hardcore Literature)
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S6 E7 · Sat, April 22, 2023
Ep 65 - How to Possess Poetry by Memory
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S6 E6 · Mon, April 03, 2023
Ep 64 - How to Approach a Special Author Project
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S6 E5 · Wed, March 22, 2023
Ep 63 - Reflecting on Life, Literature & Reading the Great Books
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S6 E4 · Mon, March 20, 2023
Ep 62 - Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
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S6 E3 · Sat, February 25, 2023
Ep 61 - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Tolstoy)
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S6 E2 · Wed, February 22, 2023
Ep 60 - The Tragedy of Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Dear Lovers of Great Literature — Thank you so much for listening to the show. If you would like more Shakespeare discussions, we have a library of lectures, guided readings, and bookish content at the Hardcore Literature Book Club at Patreon.com/HardcoreLiterature We are currently reading through the complete works of Shakespeare over the course of the year, and the discussion is incredibly rich and exciting. In our back catalogue, we also have a deep dive lecture series into twelve specially curated masterpieces from William Shakespeare. This includes banquets of blood like Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, and sparkling comedies like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, and Much Ado About Nothing. In addition to Shakespeare, we have extensive lectures for writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Cervantes, Jane Austen, Cormac McCarthy, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, and many more. Across the course of 2023, we are journeying through War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov, Orlando, The Count of Monte Cristo, Invisible Man, The Lord of the Rings, the short stories of Alice Munro, Jane Eyre, Paradise Lost, Gravity’s Rainbow, and much more. You will be warmly welcomed to our little literary oasis! Happy reading, and have a lovely day. - Benjamin
S6 E1 · Tue, February 14, 2023
Ep 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)
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S5 E12 · Sun, January 29, 2023
Ep 58 - How to Make 2023 Your Greatest Reading Year (and Lessons from the Great Books)
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S5 E11 · Wed, November 02, 2022
Ep 57 - The Best Beginnings in Great Literature
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S5 E10 · Fri, July 01, 2022
Ep 56 - How to Read in Times of Need
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S5 E9 · Tue, June 14, 2022
Ep 55 - Shakespeare's Comedies
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S5 E8 · Mon, May 02, 2022
Ep 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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S5 E7 · Sun, March 27, 2022
Ep 53 - The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
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S5 E6 · Thu, March 17, 2022
Ep 52 - Reflecting on the Great Books on my Birthday
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S5 E5 · Tue, February 22, 2022
Ep 51 - The Anxiety of Influence (Harold Bloom)
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S5 E4 · Fri, December 31, 2021
Ep 50 - Reading Goals for 2022
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S5 E3 · Thu, December 23, 2021
Ep 49 - A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
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S5 E2 · Wed, December 22, 2021
Ep 48 - Book Club Schedule for 2022
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S5 E1 · Fri, December 10, 2021
Ep 48 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
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S4 E12 · Mon, November 08, 2021
Ep 47 - How the Great Books Saved My Life
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S4 E11 · Mon, November 01, 2021
Ep 46 - How to Write a Book Review
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S4 E10 · Fri, October 15, 2021
Ep 45 - How to Overcome the Challenges Facing Readers Today
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S4 E9 · Sun, October 03, 2021
Ep 44 - Don Quixote (Cervantes)
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S4 E8 · Wed, September 22, 2021
Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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S4 E6 · Sun, September 19, 2021
Ep 42 - Siddharta (Hermann Hesse)
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S4 E5 · Wed, September 15, 2021
Ep 41 - Our Favourite Comfort Reads
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S4 E4 · Wed, August 18, 2021
Ep 40 - Shakespeare's Tragedies
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S4 E3 · Thu, August 12, 2021
Ep 39 - Literature I'm Loving Right Now
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S4 E2 · Fri, July 30, 2021
Ep 38 - The Bhagavad Gita
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S4 E1 · Wed, July 21, 2021
Ep 37 - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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S3 E12 · Sun, July 11, 2021
Ep 36 - How to Read World Literature in Translation
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S3 E11 · Mon, July 05, 2021
Ep 35 - Persuasion (Jane Austen)
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S3 E10 · Thu, July 01, 2021
Ep 34 - The Poems of Emily Dickinson
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S3 E9 · Tue, June 15, 2021
Ep 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
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S3 E8 · Tue, June 15, 2021
Ep 32 - Lessons Learned from Running a Book Club
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S3 E7 · Sun, June 13, 2021
Ep 31 - Milton's Paradise Lost (Book I)
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S3 E6 · Fri, May 28, 2021
Ep 30 - Answering Your Bookish Questions - The Q&A Show
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S3 E5 · Wed, May 12, 2021
Ep 29 - How to Live the Great Books (Approaches to Literature)
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S3 E4 · Mon, May 03, 2021
Ep 28 - The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
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S3 E3 · Fri, April 09, 2021
Ep 27 - Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
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S3 E2 · Wed, April 07, 2021
Ep 26 - Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)
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S3 E1 · Wed, March 10, 2021
Ep 25 - The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
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S2 E12 · Wed, March 03, 2021
Ep 24 - How to Heal Your Trauma with Literature (A Guide to Bibliotherapy)
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S2 E11 · Mon, February 15, 2021
Ep 23 - How to Read Imaginative Literature (Lessons from Lockdown)
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S2 E10 · Fri, February 12, 2021
Ep 22 - Join the Hardcore Literature Book Club
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S2 E9 · Tue, January 26, 2021
Ep 21 - What Is Art? (Tolstoy)
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S3 E9 · Sun, January 24, 2021
Ep 33 - Behind the Scenes (The Future of Hardcore Literature)
S2 E8 · Tue, January 05, 2021
Ep 20 - Shakespeare's Sonnets
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S2 E7 · Sun, December 27, 2020
Ep 19 - Reading and Life Goals for 2021
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S2 E6 · Tue, December 15, 2020
Ep 18 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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S2 E5 · Tue, November 24, 2020
Ep 17 - The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
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S2 E4 · Thu, November 12, 2020
Ep 16 - Richard III (Shakespeare)
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S3 E3 · Wed, November 11, 2020
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
S2 E3 · Fri, October 23, 2020
Ep 15 - The Q&A Show: Answering Your Questions About Books, Reading & Literature
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S3 E1 · Thu, October 22, 2020
Ep 25 - The Nobel Prize Challenge Book Club (The Works of Peter Handke)
S2 E2 · Mon, September 28, 2020
Ep 14 - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
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S2 E11 · Sun, August 23, 2020
The Differences Between Men & Women (Nietzsche)
We're talking about everything from whether there are no good men anymore to the best time to start a family. We'll be looking at two books: Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
S2 E10 · Sat, August 15, 2020
How to Start a Six-Figure Book Blog
Today we're talking about how to start a six-figure book blogging business. Or any kind of online business. Maybe you want to start a profitable art podcast, or make money blogging about biographies, or maybe you want to start an online presence in another domain. We're covering it all. This is a new direction for Hardcore Literature. I wasn't kidding around when I said I wanted to make the poetic practical. And this is as practical as it gets. We're talking everything from start-up costs to search engine optimisation to execution and monetisation strategies. Enjoy the show, and please consider leaving a review for Hardcore Literature because that tells me you found the show valuable and would like it to continue. www.benjaminmcevoy.com/moneypod
S2 E9 · Sun, August 02, 2020
How to Read Deeply
3:55 - quantity shouldn't be the measure of success 5:40 - on reading diversely 7:00 - against the gatekeepers of the literary world 12:00 - are you more well-read than Shakespeare? 15:00 - embarrassing story about my intellectual insecurity at Oxford 21:45 - how to write book reviews 22:37 - read books as a mirror 30:00 - the imaginative demands of great literature 32:00 - how to read Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy (controversial advice)
S1 E12 · Fri, July 31, 2020
Ep 12 - How to Talk to Your Shadow: Practical Tips from Jungian Psychology
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S2 E7 · Fri, July 31, 2020
'The Eagle' - Tennyson Poem Analysis
S2 E6 · Sun, July 26, 2020
Volodya (Chekhov Deep Dive)
Let’s deep read Anton Chekhov’s short stories together, starting with my personal favourite: ‘Volodya’. If you want the same copy that I’m working from, it’s the Constance Garnett translation from Everyman: The Steppe and Other Stories (Everyman Classics) The format of this deep reading of ‘Volodya’ is this: We’ll read this great short story together, but take breaks for analysis, appreciation, savouring Chekhov’s art and craftsmanship, and we’ll endeavour together to make the poetic practical. Timestamps for analysis breaks: 3:41 – “She was married.” 4:42 – Pure poetic love, guilt, self-hatred, women, mothers, and coming into one’s sexuality 6:57 – The truth of image selection (the smell of the bathhouse) 8:11 – Why Chekhov feels so truthful, and the power of lists 11:18 – Trauma, love, flirtation, cringe 13:45 – Shame is the essence of this story 16:34 – Betrayal and being talked about behind your back 18:15 – On not trusting people’s nature 21:32 – When you’re in a hole, stop digging – don’t throw your life away 25:35 – How Chekhov gets to the heart of human nature (story, illusion, idealisation) 27:12 – Purity and growing pains 29:48 – Freud’s Oedipal Complex discussion 31:39 – The rule of three 32:40 – Chekhov’s life – biographical reading 34:09 – Shame, poor familial relations, embarrassment, and the pain of memory 36:00 – Lying even when telling the truth 39:10 – That ending https://benjaminmcevoy.com/lets-deep-read-chekhovs-short-stories-together-volodya-analysis-appreciation/
S1 E11 · Wed, July 22, 2020
Ep 11 - Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Today we’re kicking off a new series called ‘The Psychological Significance of the Classic Myths’, starting with the Greek myth of Daedalus and Icarus taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses . We’ll discuss the dangers of creating your own reality, taking risks, hubris, arrogance, living a life of virtue, sin, the fall of Lucifer, the Dunning Krueger Effect, poetry from W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams, paintings by Titian and Brueghel, and much more.
S1 E10 · Mon, July 20, 2020
Ep 10 - Aristotle's Virtues: Ambition and Good Temper
Today's Hardcore Literature episode is about Aristotle's ethics and the virtues of ambition and good temper. We're talking about honour, how to cultivate the right ambition, snowflake syndrome, the four common types of anger, how to challenge your unconscious underlying beliefs about the world, and much more. And I'm giving away three copies of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics . Information on how to get hold of a copy at the beginning of the episode and further below.
S1 E9 · Fri, July 17, 2020
Ep 9 - How to Read and Appreciate Short Stories
S2 E2 · Tue, July 14, 2020
Should We Boycott Straight White Male Writers?
S2 E1 · Mon, July 13, 2020
The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)
S1 E8 · Thu, July 09, 2020
Ep 8 - How to Read the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a Year
S1 E11 · Thu, July 09, 2020
'The Horla' by Guy de Maupassant
S1 E7 · Fri, June 26, 2020
Ep 7 - Aristotle's Virtues: Magnificence and Pride
S1 E9 · Sun, June 07, 2020
Letters from a Stoic (Seneca Pt.1)
Today we're looking at Seneca's eighty-eighth letter, tying Tolstoy in with him
S1 E8 · Fri, June 05, 2020
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Nietzsche's Cave of Tarantulas
Today we're talking about justice.
S1 E6 · Wed, April 22, 2020
Ep 6 - Aristotle’s Virtues: Courage, Temperance, Generosity
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S1 E6 · Wed, April 22, 2020
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of the most impactful books I’ve ever read. It consolidated a lot of ideas about the nature of evil and addiction, and moved me so much I was compelled to make the second video on the Hardcore Literature channel about the novella. Episode transcript here: https://benjaminmcevoy.com/dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-evil-us-video/ Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRXOP4uLynQ
S1 E5 · Mon, April 13, 2020
Ep 5 - The Poetry of Rumi
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S1 E4 · Thu, December 26, 2019
Ep 4 - The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
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S1 E3 · Tue, November 19, 2019
Ep 3 - Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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S1 E2 · Fri, November 15, 2019
Ep 2 - Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
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S1 E1 · Wed, October 30, 2019
Ep 1 - The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
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