{"product_id":"how-to-read-now-essays-hardcover","title":"How to Read Now: Essays - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElaine Castillo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHow to Read Now\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A book that doesn't seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) Offering \"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.\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed while reading these essays from the phenomenal Elaine Castillo. What powerful writing, what a rigorous mind. For as long as I live, I want to read anything Castillo writes, and you probably do, too.\" --R.O. Kwon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Incendiaries\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow 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 cotton-candy aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.\" (\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Read Now \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Watchmen \u003c\/i\u003eto the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt 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, \u003ci\u003eHow to Read Now \u003c\/i\u003eempowers 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Castillo\u003c\/b\u003e, named one of \"30 of the Planet's Most Exciting Young People\" by the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, was born and raised in the Bay Area. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eAmerica Is Not the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for numerous prizes including the Elle Big Book Award, the Center for Fiction Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize and was named a best book of 2018 by NPR, \u003ci\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, and the New York Public Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.27 x 8.42 x 5.85 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984086106413,"sku":"9780593489635","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Z1NOeDcwbDJpMjByWXR6VklVSDJLdz09.webp?v=1776081842","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/how-to-read-now-essays-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}