A Scream Goes Through the House by Arnold Weinstein

Arnold Weinstein says of his book A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life:
"'How many of you are hurting now?' I once asked my students at the beginning of a literature course I was teaching. There was nervous silence, then a few students tentatively raised their hands. But gradually more and more of these young people acknowledged that they were in some kind of pain, whether physical or emotional. They seemed puzzled that I should be asking. What did their feelings have to do with literature? Was this merely personal solicitude on my part? For they thought there could scarcely be any connection between the books we were to read together and the pain they were dealing with. As for me, I sensed that I had stumbled on to something I had been moving toward for a long time, something large and important about the connection between art and life. The book you have in your hands grew out of that discovery."