 A sensitivity reader is hired either by an author or by the author's publisher to review the book specifically in terms of how characters with certain marginalizations or certain identity characteristics are written and to let the author know if they've gotten it, quote-unquote, right. Rosenfield has first-hand experience with the process. She was once brought in to read the novel of a male author to verify that he had accurately portrayed the female experience. I had to imagine myself in the position of a much more sensitive, much more easily offended person, the kind of person who reads a book looking for something to get mad at. I was doing something fundamentally at odds with what it means to write fiction. Trying to get this man to save his own hide by altering his book in service of the sensibilities of people who were never going to read it in the first place.