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The Lit Path

@thelitpath.bsky.social
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COMING SOON! A podcast about novels that have changed men's lives, with @JackAldane.bsky.social SUBSTACK: thelitpath.substack.com

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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“He met Heracles, and the kingdoms of his life all shifted down a few notches.” Wow 😳… @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social reads from Anne Carson’s 📚 Autobiography of Red 📚 with @jackaldane.bsky.social on Ep. 2 #AnneCarson was today announced this year’s #nobelprize winner in literature. Full episode ⬇️
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ep #5 is coming this October, and our first female guest on The Lit Path is the marvellous Amanda Craig, author of the new novel High and Low. Amanda speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about the melodies and mysteries of male friendship as written in Andrew O'Hagan's Mayflies (2020). Stay tuned!
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fiction isn’t supposed to optimise your time. That should come as a relief, says @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social Episode 4 is out now. 🔗⬇️
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OUT THIS WEEK.... @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss what George Orwell got right about men, capitalism and love in 📚Keep the Aspidistra Flying📚, which was published 90 years ago this year.
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🗣️UP NEXT in 2026! Journalist and author @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about class, male status anxiety, resentment, money, work, pride, romantic relationships and the terror of failure. 🔗 thelitpath.substack.com 🔗 youtube.com/@thelitpathpod
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Why did Dickens say he "purposely dwelt on the romantic side of familiar things" in Bleak House? @philiphensher.bsky.social, author of new book📚 The History of the Novel of Britain📚 (out this week) speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social on Ep# 3 🔗👇
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 OUT NOW! @philiphensher.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss how to (and how not to) recommend novels to men, why Dickens helps you see through the priggish and pretentious, and more! 🔗 👇
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🔊OUT TOMORROW! @philiphensher.bsky.social & @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss the power of Charles Dickens to describe, deride and diagnose the ills of his era, and how that power can still be felt today. EP#3 of The Lit Path explores how Bleak House changed Philip's life as a reader. Don't miss it!
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.” New novelist Saul Leslie reads from Melville’s Moby Dick on the River Mersey. @repeaterbooks.bsky.social
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🚨 Next up, it’s @philiphensher.bsky.social talking to @jackaldane.bsky.social about why men should read Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. Stay tuned for this later in August 🌞
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
@ioanmarcjones.bsky.social speaks to @jackaldane.bsky.social on what it feels like to discover your political voice through character in a novel. Ep#2🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?si=TkU...
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New episode with @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social out now. 🔗 t.co/y4wcWrZfCQ 🔗 t.co/XmDyzU70au
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@ioanmarcjones.bsky.social and @jackaldane.bsky.social discuss men, reading and fiction on Ep #2 of The Lit Path, out later this week.
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨OUT SOON! Following Ep.1 with the brilliant @johnyorkestory.bsky.social, @jackaldane.bsky.social sits down with the writer @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social to discuss Anne Carson's 1998 verse novel 📚Autobiography of Red📚, a work based on a fragmentary poem by the ancient Greek poet Stesichorus.
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
More reasons this morning, with Kurt Cobain. @jackaldane.bsky.social
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Episode 1 of The Lit Path is out NOW, where @johnyorkestory.bsky.social talks to @jackaldane.bsky.social about the influence of one 300 year-old novel on his storytelling career. 🔗 below
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🎧 EPISODE 1 IS UP! @jackaldane.bsky.social first guest to set down his torch on The Lit Path is TV writer, producer + author @johnyorkestory.bsky.social They discuss how Gulliver’s Travels changed fiction forever in John’s mind, and why Swift remains humanity’s greatest heckler. 📺 🔗 in replies.
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
More reasons, with @elifshafak.bsky.social
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨EPISODE #1 DROPS THIS FRIDAY! @jackaldane.bsky.social is joined at the beginning of The Lit Path by storytelling sage @johnyorkestory.bsky.social to discuss 📚GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 📚, the novel that redefined the point of reading for John, and which remains his greatest literary adventure to this day.
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yet more reasons, brought to you by looksmaxxer Clavicular
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
More reasons, with Paul McCartney 👇 @jackaldane.bsky.social
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
More reasons, with Emmanuel Macron 👇
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
More reasons this week with Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. @jackaldane.bsky.social Subscribe to our SUBSTACK: thelitpath.substack.com
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
*** For Immediate Release ***
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The Lit Path @thelitpath.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
☀️THIS SPRING, @jackaldane.bsky.social launches The Lit Path, a podcast about novels that have changed men's lives. Because: 📚Boys & men need better stories 📚Women read far more fiction than men 📚Life is about more than atomic habits We ask: What happens when men take novels seriously?
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