What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time by Williams, Ian

What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time

Enough small talk. Let's get right to it: Why can't we talk to each other anymore? What...
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Author: Ian Williams
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What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time by Williams, Ian

What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time

$30.18

What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in Our Time

$30.18
Author: Ian Williams
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Enough small talk. Let's get right to it: Why can't we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation?

In contemporary society, much of our communication exists in a new dimension, the online space, and it's changing how we regard each other and how we converse. In the digital realm, we can be anonymous, we can make false and hurtful comments yet evade consequences in a hurried scroll of clicks and swipes. But a good conversation takes time and patience, courage, even. We need to realize that one-half of our conversations is, in fact, listening. And aren't the best conversationalists--like the best musicians--good listeners?

With What I Mean to Say, award-winning novelist and poet Ian Williams seeks to ignite a conversation about conversation, to confront the deterioration of civic and civil discourse, and to reconsider the act of conversing as the sincere, open exchange of thoughts and feelings. Alternately serious and playful, Williams nimbly leaps between topics of discussion and, along the way, is discursive, digressive, and endlessly generous--like any great conversationalist.



Author: Ian Williams
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781487013424

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