Author’s note: This is technically my fifth week doing this, but for the sake of clarity I’ve started the series off at one.

All of the poems this week come from John Keats’s poetry collection.

Reading Plan

Sunday

• Story: The Man with the Twisted Lip – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Poem: On a Picture of Leander
• Essay: If we hope to build artificial souls, where should we start Aeon Essays

Monday

• Story: A Slander – Anton Chekhov
• Poem: Sonnet Oh! How I Love
• Essay: Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

Tuesday

• Story: Ex Oblivione – H.P. Lovecraft
• Poem: Sonnet to Solitude
• Essay: The ‘dangerous nonsense’ of phrenology shows how pseudoscience takes hold

Wednesday

• Story: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Poem: Sonnet To One Who Has Long in City Pent
• Essay: True mastery demands going beyond the rules to learn for yourself Aeon Videos
  • Note, this is a video essay

Thursday

• Story: The Bird Market – Anton Chekhov
• Poem: To a Young Lady Who Sent Me a Laurel Crown
• Essay: What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers

Friday

• Story: Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family – H.P. Lovecraft
• Poem: To a Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses
• Essay: Yes, There Is a Cure for Bullshit
  • Note: this was my free nautil.us essay for the month

Saturday

• Story: The Stoker a Fragment – Franz Kafka
• Poem: To My Brother George
• Essay: Scott Bane IN DEFENSE OF TELLING • Craft Essay