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Currently Playing: Did Universities Lose the Reading Public? ft. Charlie Tyson

(Apologies for the quality) Charlie Tyson is a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, The Guardian, Plough, Commonweal, The Hedgehog Review, and elsewhere. His scholarly monograph *The Art of Idleness: The Questioning of Work in Modern Literature* is under contract with Harvard University Press. He is also writing a book for general readers about the rotten roots of the contemporary work ethic, developing an alternative philosophy of leisure and the good life, *Workmaxxing: How Productivity Eclipsed Pleasure*, under contract with Avid Reader Press. Website link: https://www.charlietyson.com/ 00:00 Intro 03:19 Love of Reading 08:10 Poetry & Education 13:41 The Poetry Canon 20:12 Academia & the Public 29:20 AI & Literary Criticism 35:13 The Art of Idleness