Post tagged with literature

  • The Most Social Medium

    September 02nd, 200902:03 PM ET
    By Richard Doster
    Many of us are discouraged by the decline of reading, and what it portends for our society. Novels, poetry, and short stories continually lose ground to lighter fare -- to shallower but more social media, like Facebook and Twitter-where all our friends, real and virtual, can add their own dab to the never-ending conversation. Reading books, on the...

  • Reading and Progress

    August 01st, 200909:04 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    In his book, Reading Between the Lines, Gene Edward Veith insists that reading books is critical to a thriving culture. Television and movies, Veith claims, if enjoyed to excess, will turn us into an image-dominated society. The Internet, we know, is a medium that's scanned and browsed, but not studied. "Only reading," Veith says, "cultivates a sus...

  • The Reason We Read

    June 21st, 200908:09 AM ET
    By Richard Doster
    In his book, How to Read and Why, Harold Bloom, the respected literary critic, says that there is no single way to read well, but that there is a prime reason. "Information," Bloom says, is "endlessly available to us..." Then he rhetorically asks, "Where shall we find wisdom?" Bloom unknowingly underscores the urgency of Proverbs 3: "Blessed is th...
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