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some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.
if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars
literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that.
Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?
there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life
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Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.
He said the exact same thing, which I did not know before that, so spreading this knowledge.
favorite passages from my short story "pianos that play themselves" - a story I wrote in 2020 or 2021 or so, while struggling to save my creative practice from the demands of my shitty job. It has taken on a new register in the current era of genAI. Or at least, I think so. You tell me what you think.
originally published in salvage issue #12: a ceaseless storm
available here to read for free!
transcriptions under the cut
first excerpt:
You started to become incorporeal in high school. You noticed it in your extremities first; you would hold your hands to the sun and watch as the light turned your palms into a vibrant red display of blood vessels, like candling an egg with a flashlight. Nobody believed you when you told them, except for the classmates who had also begun to notice their voices diminishing, their fingers vanishing at the tips.
second excerpt:
You start to shake your head and open your mouth to correct him, but the words won’t come out. Even as you fade, you can interact with the physical--your car, your phone, the dough mixer at work--but there are parts of your body that aren’t working like they used to. Your voice is the product of folds of muscle vibrating in your throat, a correspondence of your own flesh; maybe you are not physical enough anymore to speak.
third excerpt:
You spend the night turning the lights on and off, trying on different clothes, trying to look through the camera lens on your phone instead of the mirror--anything to convince yourself that it’s not as bad as it looks. Eventually, you curl up on the floor and try to cry a little bit, but you can’t even do that, because you’re not surprised. This is a steady progression. This is where you always knew you would be.
fourth excerpt:
You’re a vessel now, like the cells you traced through your own capillaries. Nobody pays attention to the things that keep their bodies or their cities alive, unseen systems of nerves and ghosts holding that framework together. You think you might understand it now, as you flow through the city in silence. People would rather not know what keeps the blood moving, and would rather not think about how fragile it all is, how easily these mechanisms can fall apart. A quiet aneurysm, rust on the girders of an aging bridge, a blocked artery, a downed power line--
Or a less dramatic decline. When blood cells are destroyed faster than they can regenerate, broken down through malnutrition, the heart will slowly fail.
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