Vacation not only primes us for the pleasure of reading, it can also make the experience more beneficial. In particular, reading literary, character-driven stories can make us more open, empathic people after we go back to work, says Keith Oatley, a novelist and the author of a forthcoming paper on the psychology of fiction, to be published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences in July.
Experts say reading literary, character-driven stories can make us more open, empathic people after we go back to work. “Literary fiction is mainly about character,” says Oatley, a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. “And so it enables us to get more involved with understanding other people.”
Layer on the calming monotony of crashing waves, and you’ve got literary magic. In an effort to make the most of this, I asked my colleagues at Quartz—among the most voracious readers and prolific travelers I know—for their all-time favorite beach reads...
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