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"...editors seem to prefer a "triangulation" method' when it comes to books about disability. "In practice," says Weise, 'this might be why books about disabled people garner far more reach than book by disabled people." She offers as an example Ann Patchett's biography of Lucy Grealy [...] "We already had Grealy's autobiography. Why did we need Patchett's?"
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looked up a NYT obit they mentioned:
when I mentioned to a woman I met at a party that I was teaching in a school for the blind, she seemed confused. “Can I just ask you one question?” she said. “How do you talk to your students?” I explained that the students were blind, not deaf. [...] she said: “Yes, I know they’re not deaf. But what I really mean is, how do you actually talk to them?” god
— Dec 29, 2025 12:50AM
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when I mentioned to a woman I met at a party that I was teaching in a school for the blind, she seemed confused. “Can I just ask you one question?” she said. “How do you talk to your students?” I explained that the students were blind, not deaf. [...] she said: “Yes, I know they’re not deaf. But what I really mean is, how do you actually talk to them?” god
Julianne Kelly
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This book is drier than my sense of humor.
— Aug 18, 2025 12:37PM
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