Your high school English classes probably taught you that there was only one way to understand your assigned reading, and that any other interpretation was wrong. Did that make you want to keep reading books? If it didn't, I understand. In the first episode of Splendor Falls, I explore what it means to let go of the author’s “intent” and engage with literature to its fullest potential. Using illustrations from the playwright to the lyricist to the novelist, I’ll show you how much more you can enjoy what you read when you focus less on the author’s imagined thought process and more on what you and your insight bring to the text.

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Buy Solastella from BookPeople, Bookwoman, and Reverie Books in Austin, TX to support independent bookstores, or online from Amazon and Thurston Howl Publications

Music by fictional flowers

Cover art by Amity Adair