Office Hours: Literature and Life with Professor Geoffrey Sanborn

In this episode of Office Hours, Assistant Podcast Editor Anthony Xu ’29 sat down with Samuel Williston Professor of English Geoffrey Sanborn to answer questions ranging from why we read books to Sanborn’s literature recommendations.

What is the potential of literature? How and why do we read, teach, and critique books? What do we learn about life when we bury our nose in a book? What are Samuel Williston Professor of English Geoffrey Sanborn’s five book recommendations? All this and more are discussed in this episode, which invites the listener to relax, meditate, and feel. 

Episode notes and further reading here.

Edited and produced by Anthony Xu ’29.