I saw the interview, and it kinda annoys me. Close reading comes from broad reading - it's only after you've read a library of books that you get all the subtle

I saw the interview, and it kinda annoys me. Close reading comes from broad reading - it's only after you've read a library of books that you get all the subtleties and references. There are all sorts of orthodoxies around reading propagated by philosophers, often ingenious ones, often trying to make some kind of backhanded point.