There is this auditory architecture to how we use our words. The first aspect of language is music. There are special gifts that we might call the affordances of the voice, as well as the affordance of print or the screen.
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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