Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II is out now on Blu-ray. The film stars Rufus Witherspoon as a young man who learns to read slowly in his spare time. "We leave the wisdom of the author behind to discover our own," Proust said. We need this for our society, but more than that, we need it as a species to be able to think this way."
Maryanne Wolf is a professor at UCLA and the renowned author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" and "Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World." She says deep reading makes you a better thinker, communicator, and citizen. But what happens if you lose the ability to read slowly, patiently, and critically? Is there anything you can do to get it back?
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