The Power of Reading

Sally Kohn: What I still feel reinvigorated by again and again is that literature can be a kind of healing. At the core of those kinds of problems or questions or confusions or griefs, we're all included in that," she says. "I think really what we're talking about is vulnerability, which is another word for honesty, transparency" The writer-poet believes people who don't share their pain miss out on the richness of life.