Reading is, to her, a vital part of self-education and self-creation, at once an “intellectual exercise, an aesthetic exercise, and a profoundly private, emotional and visceral undertaking-while also being an ethical act a civic act.” Lazy or sloppy reading is, therefore, not just a missed opportunity but a moral failure. On the book’s first page, Castillo describes herself as a reader first, a person second.
How to Read Now is at once a fierce condemnation of American reading culture, which Castillo rightly sees as racist and consumerist, and a fervent ode to reading’s potential.
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