modern american lit & paul thomas anderson [sep week four syllabus]
books, lectures, essays, podcasts, movies, and video essays for the week
I have way more free time on my hands these days, so in my continued attempt to fix my attention span and gradual short form content induced brain-rot (and hopefully distract my brain which always spirals when I have any sort of free-thinking time during a depressive episode), I thought I’d plan a weekly syllabus. Here’s a collection of books, essays, podcasts, movies, video essays, and online lectures I’m interested in looking at this week, along with a recap of last week’s syllabus! I planned this thematically by each category.
playlist of the week
books
Main focus: short American modern classics that are a famous author’s lesser known book. There’s something about books written in the 1960s and 70s that is so easy to get through while not feeling completely contemporary either. Some of my favorites from this era are a famous author’s less famous book, and I think it would be really interesting to only explore these for a bit.