E-Books, Accessibility, Luddites, and the Techno-Dazzled
“Blind and print-handicapped readers do not have the luxury of deciding whether they will go old-school and deny the digital age.”
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Down By Law,New York PressSlackjaw
Tropic of CancerTropic of Capricorn—
The Georgia Review,
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M. Leona Godin is a writer, actor, artist, and educator who is blind.
She is currently working on Seeing & Not-Seeing: A Personal and
Cultural History of Blindness with Pantheon Books. Godin founded
Aromatica Poetica as a venue for exploring the arts and sciences of
smell and taste, an online magazine not specifically for, but
welcoming to, blind readers and writers. She is proud to be a 2019
Logan Nonfiction Fellow.
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