The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction American Playwrights - Literary Biography ISBN-13: 9780374176426 Publisher: Farrar

ISBN-13: 9780374176426 Publisher: Farrar

Often underestimated

90(d) Detective James Cross has been honorably discharged from the Army Criminal Investigation Division due to wounds sustained when an IED blew up near him

we are not often aware of how culture shapes us

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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction American Playwrights - Literary Biography ISBN-13: 9780374176426 Publisher: FarrarISBN 13: 9780199747498 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication date: 05 26 2011 Pages: 176 Sales rank: 354,671 Product dimensions: 5. 70(w) x 8. 30(h) x 0. 80(d) In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and