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How to Read Now: Essays (2022)

par Elaine Castillo

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Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML: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.
A book that doesnt seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up. (The New York Times Book Review) Offering its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity were 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." (Los Angeles Times)

"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 The Incendiaries

How 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 wordsbeautiful, aspirationalare 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. (Vulture)
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 womans 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 intimacywithin ourselves, and with each other.
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The author writes elegantly and makes brilliant arguments for being an active, engaged, critical reader. Rather than espousing a facile "cancel" culture, she encourages readers to sit with the complexities and contradictions inherent in creative works. What is most exciting for me is discovering books, stories, poems, and films to deepen my knowledge of the world. Highly recommended for all libraries. ( )
  librarianarpita | Feb 5, 2024 |
Taking nothing away from the timely and important themes in this work, I simply couldn’t get into “How to Read Now.” A small part of it may have been because my library hold was released in a chaotic month when I was more in the mood for breezy escapism. But other factors that undermined Castillo’s work have been mentioned in previous reviews. Her anger/indignation – while justified – made this a tough book to get through. Also, her obsession with Joan Didion – an author I’m only vaguely familiar with – and her repeated references to other unfamiliar authors, film directors and actors comprised the work. But I give three stars to the book for its relevant themes and thought-provoking arguments. ( )
  brianinbuffalo | Nov 5, 2022 |
I hesitate to write a review of such a brilliant book, but I'll just say to the reviewers on Goodreads and Amazon who complain that Castillo is "too angry" to look up the definition of indignant, because that's what she is—and rightly so. She's also very funny. ( )
1 voter giovannigf | Oct 13, 2022 |
Interesting in many ways. Overall, a woke book for a woke moment in American politics. ( )
  BraveKelso | Sep 23, 2022 |
This was amazing, and I need to dig in a bit more when the ebook hold comes in from the library (as I listened to the audiobook--although I do appreciate that she spends almost an hour breaking down her works cited as that's never done in audio). I loved all the connections the author made with such a variety of works (some that I'd heard of and others not at all), and she has a wonderful way of really getting down to the root of the issues with certain works. ( )
  spinsterrevival | Aug 29, 2022 |
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Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML: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.
A book that doesnt seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up. (The New York Times Book Review) Offering its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity were 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." (Los Angeles Times)

"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 The Incendiaries

How 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 wordsbeautiful, aspirationalare 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. (Vulture)
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 womans 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 intimacywithin ourselves, and with each other.

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