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How to Read Now (Paperback, Main)
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How to Read Now (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R306
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'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane
Gay 'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year'
Jia Tolentino 'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively
funny' Andrew Sean Greer 'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . .
. Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon 'A wake-up call. A broadside. A rich and
brilliant war cry' Chris Power 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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