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Joe Breslin on What Fiction Is For
How do we justify reading? Do we justify reading?
Heights fifth grade teacher and published fiction author Joe Breslin chases away such questions. Though fiction can have utility, even moral impact—fiction at its best is an art created and received with wonder. In this fascinating conversation, Mr. Breslin reflects on writing, reading, and gets us to the heart of what it actually means to do something "for its own sake."
Chapters:
3:50 Do we read for utility?
7:49 Fiction: pursued for its own sake
11:43 Whether fiction has a moral purpose
18:57 Fiction writing is not essay writing
23:03 Good…
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