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How to Read Now
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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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"And on this I agree with Castillo: It so desperately needs to change."
"Provocative, deeply analytical, and powerfully expressed ..."
"How to Read Now offers its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity we're all too often spoon-fed into order to restore ourselves to chaos and complexity — a way of seeing and reading that demands so much more of us but offers even more in return."
"Although How to Read Now is technically about reading, it doubles as a work of refreshingly blunt literary criticism."
"Brilliant and passionate ..."
"I still found Castillo's fiction much more compelling than her essays ..."
"The effects of centuries of colonialism are dangerous and wide-ranging, as Castillo documents throughout How to Read Now."
"It matters who draws the bath, and that is Castillo's point."
"Each of her essays has indelible lessons to explore and absorb ..."
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