VYBARR CREGAN-REID – on the power of good reading.
Does what you read determine how you think, what you do, and who you are? Can reading shape our lives? What’s it like to be lost in a good book? What constitutes a good book? Why does Literature last? Any other questions?
English professor, broadcaster, writer on evolution, running, and reading, Vybarr Cregan-Reid has some answers.
His latest book, We Are What We Read, assesses the transformative power of reading good books, why we should take reading seriously, how our brains are rewired by books, the magic of memoir, and how fiction might be far more real than we think.
Here’s a line from his book. ‘Being yourself requires a lot less effort than trying to be someone and something else. On finishing that book . . . my life had changed . . . . I never stopped reading.’
