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When Misha Rai sat down to write the introduction for Art and the Moment, the
Kenyon Review’s special project on voting, it was natural that she would turn to personal memories. Rai has an instinct for storytelling, a style brimming with narrative warmth, and a gift for interweaving layers of time and meaning, uncovering flashes when the wider world, with its conflict and complexity, surprises ordinary life.
In this case she evoked two scenes. There is her childhood home in India, where her father would expect young Misha and her brother to read one of the family’s four newspapers every day and then grill them on stories in the various sections. And there is a somber moment in the Florida statehouse in 2017, when the state legislature posthumously exonerated the “Groveland Four,” four young African American men who almost seventy years earlier had been falsely convicted of raping a young white woman.
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Newspapers are how I first noticed the world.
From a young age, my brother and I were expected to read at least one of the four dailies that were delivered to our home in the mornings. Sometimes our father merely discussed the parts that we’d found interesting and wanted to know why we were drawn to that particular news item. At other times we were subjected to a veritable grilling about the news in every section. And although our father was always kind and patient, I found it hard to perform under such pressure while my brother excelled at recalling exact details and, at times, quoting whole passages of information. Since our father cared more for the act of learning, for his children to engage with the world, and less for a task being completed in the manner he originally set, I began to read one section of the paper more thoroughly and discuss it with him. Eight pages of international news. Even at a young age I was looking outside my inhabited space, fascinated by the disparat
Kenyon Review Reading Series 2020-21
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