{"product_id":"craft-and-conscience-how-to-write-about-social-issues-9780807046494","title":"Craft and Conscience: How to Write about Social Issues","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues--a critical first step in creating social change\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriters are witnesses and scribes to society's conscience but writing about social issues in the twenty-first century requires a new, sharper toolkit. \u003ci\u003eCraft and Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e helps writers weave together their narrative craft, analytical and research skills, and their conscience to create prose which makes us feel the individual and collective impact of crucial issues of our time. Kavita Das guides writers to take on nuanced perspectives and embrace intentionality through a social justice lens. She challenges writers to unpack their motivations for writing about an issue and to understand that \"writing, irrespective of genre or outlet, is an act of political writing,\" regardless of intention. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book includes essays from a fascinating mix of authors, including James Baldwin, Alexander Chee, Kaitlyn Greenidge, George Orwell, Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, Gaiutra Bahadur, Jaquira Díaz, and Imani Perry. By including Das's own perspective and those of the featured writers about motivations and approaches to writing about fraught social issues, this book both demystifies the process of engaging social issues on the page, and underscores the intentionality and sensitivity that must go into the work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKavita Das\u003c\/b\u003e has taught nonfiction writing at the New School and Catapult and has written about social issues for ten years. Previously, she worked in the social change sector for fifteen years, addressing issues ranging from community and housing inequities to public health disparities and racial injustice. Das is also the author of the biography \u003ci\u003ePoignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar\u003c\/i\u003e. Find her online at kavitadas.com and on Twitter (@kavitamix).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717379035410,"sku":"9780807046494","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_46b4795e-04da-4d73-868c-7678fc62da80.jpg?v=1734616419","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/craft-and-conscience-how-to-write-about-social-issues-9780807046494","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}