This is an exercise in reading fiction critically with an eye toward a richer and fuller imagination.

Basically, reading fiction on behalf of our actual lives.

Volume 1, “A Great Host”, will explore the ways books offer themselves up to us as genuine and nourishing companions. Using the metaphor of friendship as a ‘critical’ lens, I’m seeking something human, something like a personality in each book. Not so that I can merely observe, but that I might inhabit its meaning, even befriend it.