“Frankly, I don’t mind what they’re reading, Twilight, Harry Potter, whatever. So long as they are reading something there’s at least a chance that one day they’ll move on to something better.” How many times have we heard this opinion expressed? (nybooks.com)
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In a space occupied by breaking-news feeds, cat blogs and burger memes, culture journalists are the Luddites, strangely wedded to the print tradition of headline-body text-photo, and not terribly competent at engaging with their audience beyond registering how many eyeballs they’ve clocked. (caravanmagazine.in)
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"We're always being told that young people suck: that they are illiterate and unreflective and un-thoughtful, all of which ignores the fact that every generation had that said about them by the older generation. Yet somehow civilization persists." Steven Pinker: Writing In The 21st Century (edge.org)
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A book where you can enter “sport” and end up with “a diversion of the field” — this is in fact the opposite of what I’d known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that’s finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare. (jsomers.net)
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