Friends, people have asked how I first got drawn into the life of the mind, or what my reading and writing habits are like. Well, in this episode of the "Word on Fire Show," we disucss those elements of the intellectual life, and I offer advice to aspiring intellectuals.

A listener asks which literature books I would recommend for a Catholic high school English class.

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