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READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?

The Next Big Idea

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Introduction

Many of my friends report that they do not read as much as they used to. Marianne Wolfe is a professor at UCLA and the author of several books, including Proust in the Squid. She says deep reading is critical to our capacity to sit with ideas,. digest them, work through them, and respond thoughtfully. Research suggests our collective ability to read slowly has already begun to deteriorate.

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