CNN's John Sutter talks with author David Uland about the importance of deep reading in a digital age. He says he and his sons have colorful conversations at dinner table on this topic, but that we're all struggling to do it. And you had your own experience, didn't you? You went back to read one of your favorite authors, Herman Hesse. In the Herman Hesse, I knew everything. So I could really just enter it, thought. Instead, it was almost paralyzing my cerebral cortex to try to get the rhythm of his prose,. which is dense, its labyrinthine, it's sometimes nauseatingly circuitous.
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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