
Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Unexpected Reader
Sally Kohn: I think of this when you say that having grown up, you are almost always the unexpected reader. But also that in the end, you see that being the unexpected reader has been one of the greatest gifts of intellectual life. So if you could tell us what the unexpected reader is, more generally speaking, and then how having lived it, you find from a critical perspective as a reader that it actually is ended up being a superpower. Sally Kohn: The great possibility is not the smooth fiction of continuity, but the jagged edge of unfinishedness, the infinite invitation to reread and thus revise a way out from the real of the now.
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