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...Stories about families] will probably be the last stories we ever write,” he said. “They are stories that arrest, sustain and reward the reader time and time again...
...book is only for scholars…But it’s hard for me to judge what an average ignorant person finds hard to understand,” she says. “Some Americans are so ignorant it’s hard to say what the general reader is. The average American these days doesn’t even read...
While it remains uncertain whether the intelligent general reader still exists, Americans do seem to be reading—just, perhaps, via new media. In March 2009, Amazon launched the Kindle DX, its latest version of an electronic platform for digital media and e-books. The company reported that for those books available on the Kindle, sales were already at 35% of the same editions in print. And the Google Book Search Project, which has made over 10 million out-of-copyright titles available online, was able to do so at an estimated cost of $5 million, according...
...eschew the simplicity of Wikipedia is also to risk losing a reader in the midst of haphazard associations and esoteric mentions of related events and figures. “Literary History” has admirable intentions; it has striven to narrate a portion of America’s literary history by concentrating on the rigorous analysis of facts, while still keeping readers engaged...
...When a general reader like yourself can’t understand something the fault is generally not in you but in the poor thinking [of the author],” she explains...