Max Garland on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
This passage by James Baldwin is more eloquent than anything I can come up with. So I’ll just footnote Baldwin by adding that the risks of reading are that you may be faced with a…
Mark Wisniewski on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
Literary Risk Why did I work on Watch Me Go for twenty years? That’s not an easy question for me, if for no other reason than sometimes the book sat, rejected by yet another agent…
Amy Abugo Ongiri on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
As a child growing up in a Pennsylvania steel town that was close but also worlds away from both Philadelphia and New York, reading was totally central to my life and the way that I…
Jacob Held on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
Philosophy is a risky business. Ask Socrates. Well, nowadays we don’t have to be worried about being sentenced to death. But even if charges of denying the gods and corrupting the youth don’t lead to…
Joseph W. Ellwanger on “Reading: Risk and Reward”
I hope that my book, Strength for the Struggle, will reward readers with a clearer vision of their own life and where it’s going, a clearer vision of our nation’s history and how significant changes…
Kelly Cherry on “Reading: Risk & Reward”
Risky Behavior Writing, reading, and publishing are inherently risky behaviors. They won’t give you STDs, but other unfortunate consequences abound. First of all, being reviewed is a nightmare. You can decline to read your reviews,…