Eavesdropping As Caring

Another form of listening, and its value. Plus The Heard No. 19.

Lately I’ve been writing a lot about listening. Here’s one more variation on that theme: “the art of eavesdropping.”

I’ve borrowed the phrase from the title of a recent Lit Hub mini-essay by Nikita Lalwani. A novelist, Lalwani cops to eavesdropping “as a matter of course,” partly making a case for the habit as something like a form of research. She also…