Reports Of Reading's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
Responding to a new NEA study reporting an increase in "literary reading," David L. Ulin says: "I'm not so sure reading really was in crisis - any more than it ever has been. Laments over the death of reading are as old as mass literacy; ever since we began to consider culture as a social value, we've fixated on the way it falls apart. But what is it exactly we're lamenting?" Los Angeles Times 01/13/09

Posted January 13, 2009 09:52 PM