Why I Read, Why I Write: How I Learned to Love the Book 

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My literary teacher is Borges, he's so erudite that his essays, poems or stories full with interesting ideas point you in the way of the best writers in history. He's never failed me yet and thanks to him I've read Quevedo, Schopenhauer, Keats, Garcia Lorca, Schwob, Dante and maybe more I can't remember.

A beautiful video. I fully identify with both your necessity to read and also to write.

Everything changed for me in my mid twenties when I read the Beat writers. Bukowski giving me the biggest jolt, he spoke to me in his rawness and ability to make me feel we had so much in common mostly in terms of the daily grind of just surviving in jobs you hate. I like your content very much and the fact you have nearly 40 thousands subs is undoubtedly a reason to keep at it.

This was really great, the change of pace will be very welcome!

Loved this! No explanation needed, this flows perfectly from your other work

I'm repeating myself but I want to thank you for this reminder of what literature is truly about and for your overall work here. This is probably the only bonafide literature channel I've found in years, and the passion and inquisitiveness you show for the art are something I can't find in anyone I've ever known in my personal life. I've struggled a lot to put pen to paper for most my life because of lack of confidence in my own perception of life, and a little bit of inferiority complex added in the mixture, tbh. Just like yourself I've read Hemingway, Mishima, Dostoievski, Miller... and I've gone through all that noise: thinking it was not gonna be good enough (for who exactly, should be the question), that I had to write something majestic and unique (just like those authors) from the get go or it would be not worth it, or just to prove myself I can do something worthy. Only through the last year I've started to soften to an idea you're expressing here: it has to be a natural flow. Worth it for the "grand audiences" or not, but it will only be worth it per se if it's done like that. Again thanks for your work here and keep it up, you have a unique touch with this form of expression.

This is really great, i love you channel!!

I love book

You are doing something special, so much of what your doing is my dream. You are really interesting, and you don't coome off as phony, Catcher in the rye being the first real book I read, not counting countless copies of goosebumps. I took to reading myself, if I had a good bio book reading was too easy and I'd get a fear when I get near the end,"will I ever find another book such as good" You are definitely are reading the rights books but you do need to read Proust,Joyce,Rand(I just hot the 4min mark and can see you are on the right trck) I hope Im not sounding like I know better then you but Im 36 and have a feelings you might be abit younger(Iam Canadian so have a harder time aging a British voice) I too have tried to write and by God was it harder,I rather have fought Tyson then look at a blank sheet of paper. You are writing what you know and that gonna workout for you, these videos are YT gems. Your really are onto something and stoping would be a tragedy in of itself as a lost to both you and me(save one person and you save the whole world) Im a rarity at a grade 6 dropout cause my dad died in my first week of school, so I bound out until going to HS and getting in with no grades record under mere mercy of the school knowing my family. Keep it up and thank you so much for lighting a spark for me to write again and the fear of how can a writer start at 36(only 5days into 36 but still) I will be watching your stuff in the coming future. If your are interested in a correspondent please let me I feel we could both benefit from each other knowledge. All the best, James W Cowan.

just an idea but instead of essays about things that you figured out what about essays that explore the unknown.... so I'm thinking here about seller door from Donnie Darko t in about how beautiful the unknown and the unfamiliar and the strange are and how incredibly fundamental those aspects of Life are while they remain hidden... so basically instead of video essays about what about how you connected dots video essays that explore collecting dots discovering dots this I'm wondering may allow for much wider and deeper material for you to immerse yourself in.... and to me the questions are always so much more interesting and engaging and long-lasting than the answers are because like someone said answers are just the truth waiting to become a lie...#down the rabbit hole