PWxyz has a nice article today about a book that won’t be available until November, The Lost Art of Reading by David Ulin, published by the Northwest’s own Sasquatch Books. We haven’t seen the book but we sure do like the concept. PWxyz describes it thusly: “Ulin confronts the question of whether and how the Internet might enhance our reading—a question that must inevitably occur to anyone who straddles the worlds of books and the Internet… Ulin’s conclusion is that ‘[r]eading …is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction, a matter of engagement in a society that seems to want nothing more than for us to disengage.'” If you like essays on reading, this may become a necessity. Look for it in November, at your local independent bookseller.
Borrowed Copy
Looking for November's Lost Art of Reading
September 21, 2010
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