How and Why We Read: Crash Course in English Literature #1

In which John Green kicks off the Crash Course Literature miniseries with a series of reasonable questions. Why do we read? What's the point of reading critically? John will argue that reading is about communicating effectively with others. However, unlike direct communication, the writer must communicate with a stranger, across time and space, with only "dead, dry words on a page." So how is this going to work? Find out thanks to the crash course literature! Plus, readers are empowered during the open letter, so that's pretty cool.

Crash Course Literature 100 Reading List:
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rye Catcher
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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