My local newspaper’s website didn’t have a link to their article about the NEA study, but I found it here.
Also, NPR reports that Amazon has come out with a new gizmo to replace the book: the Kindle. Some food for thought to read about/listen to here. CEO Jeff Bezos apparently agrees with me that reading is an evolutionary process, calling [...]
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Woe and alas II
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Woe and alas
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We’re going to hell in a handbasket again. Or that’s the general conclusion of a new study on reading, released today by the National Endowment for the Arts. “We’ve got a public culture which is almost entirely commercial and novelty-driven,” said NEA chairman Dana Gioia. “I think it’s letting the nation down.” Shocking, isn’t it?
Among the [...]
