EAN: 9781838954956

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Funny smart brilliant . . . a tour de force' Kasim Ali author of Good Intentions 'Insanely erudite and absolutely necessary for our times' Gina Apostol author of Gun Dealer's Daughter 'Energetically brilliant warmly humane incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer Pulitzer Prize -winning author of Less 'I gasped shouted and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon author of The Incendiaries 'A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and brilliant war cry' Chris Power author of A Lonely Man 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 aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier ultimately more rewarding work. 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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