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Pretty good book so far. Part memoir, but mostly an essay and meditation on literature as a force for freedom and openness in the full sense of the word. Don‘t agree with all she writes but interesting all the same.
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Pretty good book so far. Part memoir, but mostly an essay and meditation on literature as a force for freedom and openness in the full sense of the word. Don‘t agree with all she writes but interesting all the same.
pickStructured as a series of letters to her father about the books that inspire & challenge Nafisi, the thought-provoking works that help her empathize, escape, see the world & its people in all of their complexity. Nafisi talks about how the act of writing, the act of reading are both subversive, how being able to imagine yourself in a different time or place, even as someone else, is an invaluable freedom & type of resistance. An interesting read.
bailedI was looking forward to reading this, but I never made it past the introduction. That's because I saw that one of the essays was written by the racist, hate-mongering, professional victim Ta-Nehesi Coates, the same piece of shit who was celebrating the deaths of firefighters on 9/11. Fuck him, fuck those who support him, and fuck anyone who would ask him to include an essay in their book.
pick(2022) The author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" presents a series of essays on reading as a tool for resisting authoritarianism, with the background of the Iranian revolution and Trump-era American politics, in the form of letters to her book-loving father. It's pensive and personal, and expanded my TBR list. Recommended.
