As we continue to trudge through this season of social distancing and everyone sheltering at home, we're all finding it to be a struggle to do some of our favorite things. Y'know, like reading. So today, Karen Swallow Prior—one of our favorite guests from 2019—makes a return visit to the show to talk about reading habits, binge-watching, and generally class up the program.

Listen in as we discuss:

Which female literary characters men should make a point of studying
Why it's hard to read in high-stress situations
How we can overcome losing the art of deep, uninterrupted reading
Why "TL;DR" is the worst
Why Karen started her new B&H classic literature series with Sense and Sensibility and Heart of Darkness
Where are our favorite reading spots
Why it's a great idea to cite the people on your thesis panel

All this, plus a few listener questions! (Thanks Joe Waller and Richard Harbison!)

Karen Swallow Prior is the author of On Reading Well and has been a Professor of Literature at Liberty University and will be transitioning to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fall 2020. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

A few of the books we mentioned this week

On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen (get it for 44% off from LifeWay)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (get it for 44% off from LifeWay)
Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Anyone by Charles Soule
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Misreading Scripture with Modern Eyes by E. Randolph Richards and Brandon O'Brien

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