Tag: fiction

  • Reading Fiction Helps You Read the Minds of Others

    This study has shown what many of us who read literature have already professed: reading fiction that focuses on the inner lives of its characters trains us to read people. This study, and others like it, have been conducted in order to provide concrete evidence for the value of reading and literary studies. I sure…

  • Why People Should Read Fiction

    A writer at Forbes explains how reading fiction helps business leaders (and really, everyone) become more emotionally perceptive. She writes that “it seems that reading fiction improves your sensitivity to and appreciation of complex human situations; it provides a richer ‘toolkit’ of understanding from which to pull when making decisions and building relationships. And as…

  • Happy birthday, Eudora!

    Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi.  She wrote some of my favorite works of fiction and some of my favorite essays about fiction.  In “Must the Novelist Crusade?” she writes, “What distinguishes [fiction] above all from the raw material, and what distinguishes it from journalism, is that inherent in the…