Tag: Reading

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| January 12, 2009

learning from the Camiroi

In related news, Megan McArdle worries that she’s not reading enough books, or, to put it more specifically, that she...

| January 12, 2009

reading redux

In relation to an earlier post of mine on David Frum’s belief that literary culture is in decline, some news: After...

| January 8, 2009

another kind of scanning

There’s a wonderful article in the new Atlantic by Mark Bowden called “The Hardest Job in Football.” That hardest...

| January 8, 2009

lines and interruptions

I’m still thinking — and will be for a long time — about the relationship between the act of reading a book or...

| December 31, 2008

Frum and literature

David Frum makes a familiar argument in several parts: 1) “Literature is a declining presence in our modern...

| December 30, 2008

the seminar on reading

When the new semester begins at Wheaton College, where I teach, I’ll lead a seminar for senior English majors on the...

| December 29, 2008

natural signs

In an earlier post I linked to this excerpt from Albert Borgmann’s extraordinary book Holding On To Reality, and I...

| December 26, 2008

fast-twitch and slow-twitch

Okay, so in an earlier post I argued that we live in an Age of Reading, an age in which more people than ever before...

| December 23, 2008

the age of reading

In January of 2008 Steve Jobs, the head of Apple Computer, was interviewed by reporters from the New York Times, and...