Morning Pages | 17 March 2026

I ended up wondering to myself about what makes a classic a classic. I’ll be researching that more today and starting my own piece about that for my bookish Substack. Specifically it was to do with Titus Groan and Gormenghast. I want to include them in my top ten, but are the classics or otherwise? Let me know if you have thoughts.

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A slow-reads channel. 2026, Apr–Jul, Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak. Click to read Cams Campbell Reads, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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