Archive - Julian de Medeiros

Proust on why we read

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.” -Proust

13 hrs ago •

Julian de Medeiros

You should go for a walk

On the art of walking

Nov 2 •

Julian de Medeiros

October 2025

The Years of Sublime Confusion

an essay on freedom and finding your passion

Oct 30 •

Julian de Medeiros

Orwell on Reading

"There are books that one reads over and over again"

Oct 28 •

Julian de Medeiros

The heart will break, but brokenly live on

reflections on Frankenstein, Kafka, Lacan, and del Toro

Oct 21 •

Julian de Medeiros

Pessoa on Isolation & Selfhood

“Nostalgia for what never was.”

Oct 20 •

Julian de Medeiros

Oscar Wilde on Writing

“We Irish are too poetic to be poets.”

Oct 18 •

Julian de Medeiros

The Art of Not Reading

"The art of not reading is a very important one." - Schopenhauer

Oct 17 •

Julian de Medeiros

How to use writing/reading/thinking as a way to find joy, meaning and purpose.

Oct 16 •

Julian de Medeiros

New Episode: Edward Said on music, freedom in limitations, and Hamlet

Oct 14 •

Julian de Medeiros

33:56

Be weird, be different, be completely yourself.

“ridicule is the tribute paid to genius by the great average” -Oscar Wilde

Oct 12 •

Julian de Medeiros

How to produce good writing

Goethe’s advice to a young poet

Oct 11 •

Julian de Medeiros

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