The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics

Award-winning author Dean Sluyter unpacks the Dharma of over twenty major writers, from Blake to Dr. Seuss, inspiring readers to deepen their spiritual life and see literature as a path of awakening.

The marketing material suggests that we can learn mindfulness from Woolf, liberation from Douglass, and see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry. Huck Finn and Gatsby seek the infinite, and enlightenment teachings abound in Macbeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and The Bluest Eye.