Daniel Ross Goodman
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@DanRossGoodman
Author of DANTE'S GUIDE TO LIFE (forthcoming, 2026); @RutgersU Visiting Scholar; @dcexaminer contributing writer; past @HarvardDivinity postdoc
‘My favourite essay, I think, is my essay on Dante, not because I know much about Dante, but because I loved what I wrote about.’ '... genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.’ #tseliot #dante #poetry
Never really understand many of the debates over reading on here (and elsewhere). Read a little, read a lot, read hard books, read easy books, long ones or short ones. But read because you enjoy the freedom and discovery books offer, not because it's a chore.
The Divine Comedy has likely inspired more great art than any other single book save the Bible. A thread:
They were the go-to gifts for Father’s Day: a book about some little-known chapter of World War II, the sweeping narrative of a shipwreck, perhaps the latest presidential biography. These days, dad books are a dying breed. on.wsj.com/4umS8uu
Never really understand many of the debates over reading on here (and elsewhere). Read a little, read a lot, read hard books, read easy books, long ones or short ones. But read because you enjoy the freedom and discovery books offer, not because it's a chore.
