On this OAI bonus episode, Rhea and Shari discuss a chapter excerpt from Shannon Reed’s latest book, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out. You can access a PDF of that chapter here.

Reed, with much humor and humility, describes the first time she taught Lincoln in the Bardo to her Readings in Contemporary Fiction class at Pitt, and goes on to describe how what she thought would be a horrible experience has taught her one of the most important reasons why we read.

Rhea and Shari talk about all kinds of things in this episode and go on a few fun tangents, especially on imagination and how a writer keeps writing, instead of throwing in the towel, in the face of reading those masters who’ve gone before.

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