How to Read Now: Essays

"On the opening page of this collection of essays, Elaine Castillo writes: “it feels like first I became a reader; then I became a person.” It is with this deep, abiding love of reading – books, yes, but also other media – that Castillo explores how we read and what we bring with us to the text. What assumptions, beliefs and status quos have we inherited, and how do they affect our reading practice? What do we embrace, and what should we strip away? How might we face ourselves in the practice of reading as well as embrace the interconnectedness of our stories?"