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...major part of my grandmother’s life, and when I’m with her, I too need to establish a baseline knowledge of the show’s dynamics just to talk with her and keep her going. And so, while she cooks, I read the tabloids she’s assembled so we can discuss who got eliminated from “Dancing with the Stars” or why she thinks that Beth, and not Stephanie, was Eric’s first love...
...long as he’s in power. You know, we can’t be ruled entirely by middle-aged white men who haven’t read a book since they’ve left high school. Art is not just entertainment—it’s also the best tool to understand life. And so if someone who has never read a book since they’ve left high school, or a poem or a play, I wonder, where do they get their vision? Where do they get their understanding of the other? Where...
Also, it’s funny. I’ve written to Harper for three years now, not a single reply from him, whereas I’ve got a hand-written note from Barack Obama about a month and a half ago because he read “Life of Pi” with his daughter and he liked...
...think he also has empathy, I think that’s probably in part, obviously nourished by his own personal experience, but also I think it’s been nourished by the books he’s read...
...spent the year flat broke going from reading to reading. Whenever anyone would come up to me after a reading and say, “I’m going to have my book club read the book,” I’d say, “I’ll come.” It was very grassroots, and it was a lovely way to spend a year, talking to nice people who like your book...