Thursday, September 17, 2009
Beyond the Wild Wood
My commendation of that masterpiece The Wind in the Willows is online at the First Things site — though only temporarily, I think.
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Commentary on technologies of reading, writing, research, and, well, knowledge. As these technologies change and develop, what do we lose, what do we gain, what is (fundamentally or trivially) altered? And, not least, what's fun?
Alan Jacobs
Alan Jacobs is a professor of English at Wheaton College and the author, most recently, of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. His online commonplace book is here.
How to Read Well in an Age of Distraction
Watch video of Alan Jacobs discussing his new book in a Washington, D.C. lecture in June 2011.
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That is a great article.
It makes me remember how I felt about reading when I was young.