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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

Eye-opening and filled with delightful nuggets of truth, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books offers a hopeful glimpse into an essential reading future.

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It’s hardly surprising that a recent spate of books has lamented the lost art of book-reading in our distracted digital age. Writers and readers know best what such a loss could mean. 

But when Leah Price, a professor of literature and the history of books, began exploring the subject, she discovered that our perceptions of…

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