"The novel allows us to pause in the midst of that character's feelings and to experience and identify it like few other experiences," he says. "It is this incredible kind of rigorous workout in, as we were saying, the ability to get inside the head of another human" He adds: "Our wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off."
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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