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What do we get from a good book? With a greater diversity of stories on offer from publishers and as exam set texts, Janine Bradbury looks at the arguments which are made in favour of reading as a way of encouraging empathy and understanding or as a place to find ourselves. She asks whether this is the right way to think about the value of reading and her essay considers examples including Toni Morrison鈥檚 story Recitatif, Percival Everett's novel Erasure which became the film American Fiction, and Nella Larson鈥檚 1929 novel Passing, which Rebecca Hall has directed as a film.

Janine Bradbury is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the 大象传媒 to put academic research on radio.
She is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Culture at the University of York, and her first poetry pamphlet Sometimes Real Live Comes Quick & Easy (Ignition Press) was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice.

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