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Sarah Bakewell with Isy Suttie
The Penguin Podcast
Does Reading Fiction Increase Empathy?
There's a bit in the part of the book where you talk about Montagnu. You say that George Eliot said that reading fiction increases empathy. I wondered what your thoughts were on that and what is where I suppose? Well, as far as my thoughts, it's, there's actually been scientific studies that have tried to establish whether this is true or not. And also it depends what you read, you know, whether reading kind of trashy fiction or reading very high literature makes any difference.
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