[Libri] The New York Times > Books > Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds

[Stephanie Willen Brown]

Thought some of you readers might appreciate this story from 
yesterday's New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/books/08READ.html?pagewanted=print&position=

July 8, 2004

Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds
By BRUCE WEBER


Oprah's Book Club may help sell millions of books to Americans, and 
slam poetry may have engendered a youthful new breed of wordsmith, 
but the nation is still caught in a tide of indifference when it 
comes to literature. That is the sobering profile of a new survey to 
be released today by the National Endowment for the Arts, which 
describes a precipitous downward trend in book consumption by 
Americans and a particular decline in the reading of fiction, poetry 
and drama.


Happy (?) reading,
stephanie
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