Think reading means you re smart? Think again
We tend to think that reading is a sign of intelligence, that we’re improved by it. But are our assumptions well-founded? Not really, according to an array of literary front-runners including Fran Lebowitz and Nick Hornby. Writer Barbara Nichol explores the assumptions we have about reading, readers and books in a three-part IDEAS series.
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Posted: May 13, 2020 6:03 PM ET | Last Updated: April 30 I have a love of the book, Fran Lebowitz tells IDEAS. The author, humorist, essayist, and lecturer is best known for her early best-selling collections of comic essays: Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. (Brigitte Lacombe)
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Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a faculty member in the UCLA Writing Programs, was awarded for her debut novel “Until We’re Fish.” UCLA Newsroom |
May 7, 2021
Susannah Rodríguez Drissi, a faculty member in the UCLA Writing Programs, has been awarded the Nautilus Book Award for her debut novel “Until We’re Fish.” The coming-of-age story blends the romance, violence, mood and ethos of the Cuban Revolution with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.
“Until We’re Fish” has also been nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN Open Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway Book Award for debut novels.
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