The National Endowment for the Arts report on the nation’s reading habits seems to have some legs. This weekend’s New York Times magazine contained an essay on the subject by Mark Edmundson, the Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. His new […]
I have to brag about my city a little bit. A report released today named Minneapolis as the most literate city by any measure. Reporter Mary Beth Marklein, of USA TODAY, writes that the new study ranks “the USA’s “most literate” cities not by how […]
I have never done this before, but I will admit it was kind of fun. Nearly every weekend, as part of the weekend programming for Book TV, C-SPAN features a live in-depth, three hour discussion with an author. Today’s discussion was with Simon Winchester, an […]
