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How to Read Now
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How to Read Now
Essays
By
Elaine Castillo
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"Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny, it whips the tablecloth from under the setting of contemporary reading, politics and intellectual culture in a literary act of daring.”
—
Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of
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An exploration and polemic that redefines the power and potential for reading by a novelist whose “prose is as good as it gets” (
NPR
) and who has “a real voice: vernacular and fluid, with a take-no-prisoners edge” (
Kirkus
)
How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words—beautiful, aspirational—are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, “she moves to wrest reading away from the cotton-candy aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.” (
Vulture
)
How to Read Now
explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like
The Watchmen
to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico.
At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman’s reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today,
How to Read Now
empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy—within ourselves, and with each other.
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SKU:
9780593489635
Publisher:
VIKING
ISBN 13:
9780593489635
Publication Date:
07/26/2022
Format:
Hardcover
Author:
Elaine Castillo
Width:
1.00 inches
Height:
1.00 inches
Length:
1.00 inches
Weight:
0.06 pounds
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