Zadie Smith, Neil Postman, Lauren Winner, Ashley Hales, MORE - Oct 25 - ERB Daily Book Morsel
Published: Thu, 10/25/18
October 25, 2018
“But the problem with readers, the idea we're given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film,
or watching television. So the greatest principle is, "I should sit here and I should be entertained."
And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician.
An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work,
made by somebody they don't know, who they probably couldn't comprehend entirely,
and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift
that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That's the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading.
And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it.
It's an old moral, but it's completely true.”
― Zadie Smith, novelist
urban historian and sociologist.
Today is her birthday.
WATCH these conversations that
Zadie Smith has with literary stars
Ann Patchett, Jeffrey Eugenides, MORE
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New on Our Website...
New Book Releases – Week of 22 Oct. 2018
– Lauren Winner, MORE
Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Lauren Winner, Michael Mather, Ashley Hales, MORE
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson – A Sojourner’s Truth [Trailer Videos]
This superb new book released this month…
A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World
Natasha Sistrunk Robinson (Paperback: IVP Books, 2018)
IVP has released three brief trailer video
clips that introduce this book. Watch them now:
In Case You Missed It...
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Stanley Hauerwas, Mirosalv Volf, Phyllis Tickle, Jim Wallis, MORE
Top 10 New Audiobooks! [October 2018]
Here are the best audiobooks that will be released this month…
Brené Brown, Barbara Kingsolver, Lauren Winner, MORE
Here's to energizing reading today!
Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books