I've read Solomon's book and a few of his essays- I've also heard many of his interviews. I found him to be a clear and compassionate thinker. His book list reveals this quality, I've read three of them, and a few others have been on my TBR list.
“Middlemarch,” George Eliot “The Complete Poems,” Elizabeth Bishop “Random Family,” Adrian Nicole LeBlanc “The Towers of Trebizond,” Rose Macaulay “The Renaissance,” Walter Pater “The Portrait of a Lady,” Henry James “Civilization and Its Discontents,” Sigmund Freud “Rootabaga Stories,” Carl Sandburg “War and Peace,” Leo Tolstoy “Jacob’s Room,” Virginia Woolf
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“Middlemarch,” George Eliot
“The Complete Poems,” Elizabeth Bishop
“Random Family,” Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
“The Towers of Trebizond,” Rose Macaulay
“The Renaissance,” Walter Pater
“The Portrait of a Lady,” Henry James
“Civilization and Its Discontents,” Sigmund Freud
“Rootabaga Stories,” Carl Sandburg
“War and Peace,” Leo Tolstoy
“Jacob’s Room,” Virginia Woolf