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

[Sharon Shaloo]

On the SHARP List someone also posted this link to the full NEA report from 
which the article was drawn.

Not exactly beach reading but I wonder if this might be a good seminar topic 
for the fall?

http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html



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>From: Stephanie Willen Brown <swbrown at hampshire.edu>
>To: libri at wonka.hampshire.edu
>Subject: [Libri] The New York Times > Books > Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in 
>America, Survey Finds
>Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:29:33 -0400
>
>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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