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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now
Description: âWhite supremacy makes for terrible readersâ says todayâs guest Elaine Castillo, arguing that we are all overeducated in a set of fundamentally terrible reading techniques, ones that impoverish us as readers and thinkers, ones that diminish the availability of meaning and meaningfulness in our lives. When Castillo says âread,â and suggests that how we read needs a reevaluation, she is indeed talking about books. But not only. âHow to readâ extends to what we watchâtelevision, movies, the newsâto how we read our histories, and ultimately to how we read the world. What if we arenât really reading in th...