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May 08, 2008

Three Books for the Aspiring Language Guy
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Been clicking around recently in:

  • Cafe Third Edition
  • Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
  • History and Education: Past and Present
  • Knight's Castle
  • Kottke.org
  • Matt Bucher
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Richard Carrier
  • Two Masters

Liberal Education Linkfarm

  • Center for the Study of the Great Ideas
  • The Great Books Foundation
  • Teaching Great Books
  • Malaspina Great Books (online texts)
  • National Great Books Curriculum
  • St. John's College
  • Philosophy of Liberal Education (Bibliography and links)
  • Friends of the University of Chicago (inactive; via web archive)
  • Great Books of the Western World (online texts)
  • Great Books and Classics (online texts)
  • The Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults (The University of Chicage Graham School of General Studies)
  • Touchstones Discussion Project
  • The Paideia Group, Inc.
  • The National Paideia Center
  • The Great Books Academy
  • Classical Homeschooling Magazine
  • Robert Maynard Hutchins
  • Colleges with Great Books Programs

Literary Blogroll

  • Arts & Letters Daily
  • Bookslut
  • Ed Champion
  • Conversational Reading
  • Counter Balance
  • Elegant Variation
  • Los Angeles Review of Books
  • The Paris Review
  • The Quarterly Conversation
  • The Reading Experience

Author Sites (Philosophy)

  • Mortimer J. Adler (Center for the Study of The Great Ideas)
  • Mortimer J. Adler Archives (Radical Academy)
  • Walter Kaufmann

The Four Musketeers (Horsemen?)

  • Richard Dawkins
  • Daniel Dennett
  • Sam Harris
  • Christopher Hitchens

Fab Fictioneers

  • David Foster Wallace
  • And but so...(more Wallacestuff [archived, no longer active])
  • John Barth
  • George Saunders
  • Donald Barthelme
  • Frederick Barthelme
  • William T.Vollmann

Literary Audio

  • Lannan
  • Bookworm
  • Author Interviews by Don Swaim
  • The Paris Review Author Interviews
  • Barnes and Noble "Meet the Writers"

Resources

  • Bartleby.com
  • Bookfinder.com
  • Fetchbook.info