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troutman · 11-15-2016, 02:39 PM

One Way To Bridge The Political Divide: Read The Book That's Not For You

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/14/501975...m_content=2042

Lisa Lucas, head of the National Book Foundation, recommends one way to understand the other side: read.

Lucas is an avid social media user, but she doesn't believe Twitter will ever replace books — they're just too different. You don't scroll through a book quickly while waiting in line for a latte. When you read a book, you enter another world, and you have to spend time in that world. Reading a book, Lucas says, is a "protracted engagement" with people who are different from you personally, culturally and — perhaps most important at this moment — politically.

"We all need to be reading across the lines we've drawn in our lives," she says.

For her friends and colleagues in New York City, that may mean picking up one of this year's nonfiction finalists, Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild about Tea Party conservatives in Louisiana's bayou country. And Lucas wishes the people Hochschild interviewed for her book would read last year's nonfiction winner, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, about what it means to be black in America.

[aside - Coates is also the author of the new Black Panther book for Marvel Comics. Quite the get for Marvel]

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troutman Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Crowsnest Pass Exp:	One Way To Bridge The Political Divide: Read The Book That's Not For You http://www.npr.org/2016/11/14/501975...m_content=2042 Lisa Lucas, head of the National Book Foundation, recommends one way to understand the other side: read. Lucas is an avid social media user, but she doesn't believe Twitter will ever replace books — they're just too different. You don't scroll through a book quickly while waiting in line for a latte. When you read a book, you enter another world, and you have to spend time in that world. Reading a book, Lucas says, is a "protracted engagement" with people who are different from you personally, culturally and — perhaps most important at this moment — politically. "We all need to be reading across the lines we've drawn in our lives," she says. For her friends and colleagues in New York City, that may mean picking up one of this year's nonfiction finalists, Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild about Tea Party conservatives in Louisiana's bayou country. And Lucas wishes the people Hochschild interviewed for her book would read last year's nonfiction winner, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, about what it means to be black in America. [aside - Coates is also the author of the new Black Panther book for Marvel Comics. Quite the get for Marvel]