Andrew Semen: We are living in such an over networked, speeded society and culture. He says we can't remember where we left that heart of reading,. That interiority, that sanctuary. In neural science, you have this this platitude, use it or lose it, we lose our way. And that's why my book was called Reader Come Home. How did Marianne find her way back home when she too lost her 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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