![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t necessarily have a problem with empathy, or with that being part of the value of art. How do you see empathy as an obstacle to people having more genuine relationships to reading? You challenge that reading-for-empathy notion in the book. A lot of that is really about how the discourse around reading instrumentalizes writers of color to serve a particular purpose: “Well, I really want to learn about immigration,” or, “I really want to learn about terrible history.” The dynamic that ends up being produced there is that we go to writers of color to learn something specific and to white writers to feel the universal. One of the things I talk about in the book is the idea that reading teaches us empathy. How do you think publishing facilitates the issues of empathy and representation you discuss in these essays? ![]()
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