Despite Reports, Reading Is Alive and Well
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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. For decades, there's always been A crisis of reading. Most recently this summer, an article came out in the Atlantic called The End of Reading Is Here.
And it put forward some Decidedly depressing statistics. But if you're someone who cares about reading much less books, seeing a crowd of people swiping videos on their phones Well It's true. It can feel like the end of civilization as we know it.
Yet it turns out that the picture is much more complicated and it may not be doom at all. This week, one of the big stories in the New Yorker is by staff writer Nathan Heller. And he tackles the state of reading. In a very realistic and clear eyed way. Books he discovered are in fact
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