Why Read? Again… I have been thinking about why I find reading literature to be so important that I have dedicated my working life to getting folks reading the greatest and hardest books written. Why does reading Virginia Woolf matter in a world where cities are being occupied b

It was a very good salon and I really don’t think I would have taken on this huge and mysterious work without you. It was definitely worth going through the whole work—it is wonderful to actually experience real learning again as I know I did throughout the Divine Comedy (it got so mu

Robert Baird addresses this question in Slate magazine Please click on the link for the whole article… Paradise Lost Why doesn’t anyone read Dante’s Paradiso? By Robert P. Baird Posted Monday, Dec. 24, 2007, at 8:10 AM ET Dante’s Paradiso is the least read and