Read Less but Read Better

The best advice I got as a PhD student is the unexpected advice I give my literature students

Dr. Kathleen Waller
Better Humans
Published in
16 min readFeb 25, 2022

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The last piece of advice you might expect to receive from an English teacher is to read less. No, not because you’re not capable of reading more nor because there is some sort of hierarchy of worthy canonical literature. I am here to ask you to trim down your…

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