Socratic Scribbling

Entertaining, enlightening and edifying. Malachy Walsh synthesizes the lessons he learned from his schooling with the nuns and Jesuits, his career in marketing and his life long appreciation of the Great Books in order to provide a truly accessible roadmap for writing, and writing well.

The last chapter outlines the lessons, rules and ideas that Walsh explains and expands upon in the rest of the book. This outline is an amazing reference resource that will keep Walsh's book near my desk at all times.

The reason this book was so enjoyable, though, was Walsh's ability to make great writers like Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas and Shakespeare eminently accessible, pulling the curtain back on their proclivity for literary pilfering, while blending his hilarious insights and experiences from the ad making world.

As a parent, there is much that Walsh recovers that I want to make a part of my children's education. I have a few years to try and catch up myself! But Walsh provides the tools and points to additional resources that I'm excited to explore.