Jun 10, 2021
On Genre, Transcendence, Dogs, and Workshop: A Conversation with Jo Ann Beard
Adele Elise Williams
There is always a mystery in literature; not every question can, or should, be answered for the reader. It takes away the power, pulls the punch, to have such a personal experience (as reading) explained in blunt terms. Anyway, it would nearly always be reductive, because reading is a collaborative experience and when you define it too much you erase the reader’s own interpretation.