More News on the Decline in Reading...

In a recent article from Omaha World-Herald once again discusses the recent report from the National Endowment for the Arts, which showed "a loss of 20 million potential readers." According to the article, the problem is intricately tied up with America's "continued economic and social success," but education may be the key to reversing the troubling trend. Arts Chairman Dana Gioia uses Oprah Winfrey as an example of someone who "understands this issue better than (the literary critic) Harold Bloom does." Read more, from Omaha World-Herald. Read more:

• Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline
• NEA Supprt for the Arts: Chronology (PDF)
• NEA Publications

Read more about reading:

• What to Read
• Must Reads in Literature
• Famous Fictional Heroines
• Introductions to Literature
• Banned Classics
• How to Read
• On Reading
• When I Read the Book - Walt Whitman
• Why We Don't Read

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