Tag: Secret Lives of Librarians
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Can Empaths Be Cruel? The Science of Evil and Its Effect on What I’m Writing
I’m glad I didn’t read Simon Baron-Cohen’s The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty before I began writing The Secret Lives of Librarians. Not that it’s a bad book. If I’d done more academic research into empathy, narcissism, and evil before beginning my novel, I might have tried to fit Lilah…