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Article: OUR APPETITES ARE GARGANTUAN, OUR ATTENTION SPANS ANORECTIC.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 14, 2007
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Byline: STACY SCHIFF GUEST COLUMNIST
There are two ways to approach our cultural crossroads. You can either wring your hands and lament - as an eloquent school librarian did recently in The Washington Post - that literacy today has less to do with Wordsworth or Faulkner and more to do with "how we find our way through the digital forest of information overload." Or you can be a sport about it, slip your earbuds back in and pick up a copy of Professor Pierre Bayard's best-selling "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read."
There is one catch: Bayard writes in French. Of course, that hardly matters as, by definition, you're not going to crack the spine.