

To find that someone is indeed writing about literature for the common reader, To thisĭay, I am deluged with mail from people who say how desperately pleased they are Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human published in 1998, I had touredĮxtensively and found an astonishing response from the audiences I addressed andįrom people who talked to me and people for whom I was signing books.

With both The Western Canon published back in 1994 and What inspired you to write How To Read and Why? He also discusses his favorite book to teach and the three people who inspired him most. Harold Bloom offers an in-depth interview discussing his inspiration to writing How To Read and Why?, what he believes most threatens the future of reading (and its not just TV!), and why technological means of obtaining information threaten our human growth in self-knowledge, introspection, compassion and spiritual discernment.
