EUSEBIUS MCKAISER | Responses to ‘The Inheritors’ illuminate our choking differences
Often our responses to a book reveal more about ourselves than about the book and its author
12 March 2023 - 19:57
Often our responses to a book reveal more about ourselves than about the book and its author. Early responses to Eve Fairbanks' already award-winning (https://pen.org/press-release/comedy-legend-tina-fey-honored-by-pen-america-at-2023-literary-awards-for-performance-writing-with-11-authors-and-translators-also-receiving-prizes-at-ceremony-hosted-by-kal-penn/)The Inheritors is an excellent case in point. It is worth carefully engaging this important text, as a self-standing literary exercise, but also doing so by paying attention to the multiple readings of it that have already emerged. ..
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