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EPISODE · Apr 22, 2013 · 14 MIN

Issue 35. April 2013 : RON MACLEAN Is Fiction Empathy's Best Hope?

from The Drum: A Literary Magazine For Your Ears · host The Drum Literary Magazine

Ron MacLean's essay examines how stories connect us, and how the imagination becomes a powerful force in the creation of empathy. Citing writers Rabindranath Tagore, Ian McEwan, Tim O'Brien, and Marilynne Robinson, among others, MacLean reminds us that empathy is not just a desired effect of fiction, but a social and cultural need. In "Is Fiction Empathy's Best Hope?" MacLean offers us the hope and the promise of literature.

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