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Go Big Read conversation centers around literature and language as a radical act
November 05, 2025
MADISON, Wisconsin, Nov. 5 -- The University of Wisconsin posted the following news:

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Go Big Read conversation centers around literature and language as a radical act

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At nine, Percival Everett secretly read "Of Human Bondage" a moment that sparked his belief that reading is a radical act.

"I thought, 'I shouldn't be reading this.' But my grandfather, and my father, knew," he said, smiling. . . .

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