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I've been a fan since I stumbled across "Essays on Love" back in the 90s when I was doing a lot of work in England. Since then, I've read everything I can find that you've written and published.

Do you ever teach these days? If so, when and where? Lord, I could learn SO much from just listening to you talk!

Best.

Thanks so much: I teach at a little outfit I helped to start called: www.theschooloflife.com
Thanks for your support over all these years.

I get "The School of Life" newsletter every month--and look forward to it. If I was still traveling to London to work, you all would see a LOT of me! It's great stuff.

Thank you for asking, steven! I had seen the school of life site and was just sulky that I live in the US, I didn't realize there was a newsletter. Just signed up!

I didn't know that you, Alain, had begun your dissertation and then taken another path. If its not too personal, I'm curious about the course you took after that.

How did you decide to write books, as opposed to the kind of work you'd do organizing The School of Life? How do you bring your ideas together? Do you do much research and synthesize the information or is your process more informal? o you compare your work to academic work in taking care to be thorough and accurate? Do you think about who your audience is, when you have a unique point of view that doesn't have a clear institution of followers, such as academia?

I started off writing books because it was the cheapest and easiest option. All i needed was a desk and a computer. I despaired of being able to be 'me' and fulfil the demands of academia. I also despaired of getting a job as an academic. So I thought I'd have a go at just being a freelancer and have continued ever since. The School of Life came much later, in the last few years and stems from a desire to have an impact on the world through more than just books. Ideas spread through books, but also through other means - and the School of Life is just another go at this.

Thanks for your response. It's very inspiring.