I will say, though, that sometimes that doesn't work... retroactively, for me? Just in terms of how certain knowledge affects my actual desires. In that, a lot of the time I'm inspired to pick up someone's fiction after reading their nonfiction-- I'll read an interview with an author, and like what they have to say about the writing process and their general attitude towards the world and being a person, and think, "hm, this is someone whose brain I would like to be invited into, which is what fiction is for-- I'll pick up their book!" And for me personally, reading JKR's "nonfiction," so to speak, has given me the opposite effect. It's not that she's "cancelled," but when I think of her, my instinctive reaction is "nah, don't really need to spend any more time in this person's mind than I already have." (The only real effect I can imagine that having, since I had no interest n the fandom anyway, is that... a lot of parents choose books to read to their kids on the basis of "what childrens' literature did I love and want to revisit," and while obviously my future kids will be allowed to read whatever they want, Harry Potter probably isn't something I'll choose to experience again with them, if it turns out to be something they're interested in.)
Which is just to do with my personal desires, but yeah, I think the way that I choose fiction does have something to do with the author themselves.
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Date: 2020-10-17 05:11 pm (UTC)I will say, though, that sometimes that doesn't work... retroactively, for me? Just in terms of how certain knowledge affects my actual desires. In that, a lot of the time I'm inspired to pick up someone's fiction after reading their nonfiction-- I'll read an interview with an author, and like what they have to say about the writing process and their general attitude towards the world and being a person, and think, "hm, this is someone whose brain I would like to be invited into, which is what fiction is for-- I'll pick up their book!" And for me personally, reading JKR's "nonfiction," so to speak, has given me the opposite effect. It's not that she's "cancelled," but when I think of her, my instinctive reaction is "nah, don't really need to spend any more time in this person's mind than I already have." (The only real effect I can imagine that having, since I had no interest n the fandom anyway, is that... a lot of parents choose books to read to their kids on the basis of "what childrens' literature did I love and want to revisit," and while obviously my future kids will be allowed to read whatever they want, Harry Potter probably isn't something I'll choose to experience again with them, if it turns out to be something they're interested in.)
Which is just to do with my personal desires, but yeah, I think the way that I choose fiction does have something to do with the author themselves.