Carolyn Cooke: What Is Literature For?

In this episode, Carolyn Cooke, author and Interdisciplinary Arts & Writing MFA Professor, discusses reading and writing as important acts of consciousness. Her talk explores how reading is related to deep thinking and how in a challenging world, reading itself can be a direct route to becoming a kinder, nicer, more interesting person. This talk is part of our Big Ideas at CIIS series.

This episode was recorded during an event on April 13, 2016 in front of a live audience in San Francisco, California.

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