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Originally Posted by tompe
he recalled his experience of teaching a course on "the American short story" to a class of undergraduates [ ...] It dawned on Birkerts that a whole generation of young American readers were becoming gradually decoupled from the whole culture of the written word.
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Then again, school effectively killed my urge to read for years to come. It literally took me years to pick up a book again, and a few more years before enjoying some of the classical literature that my school went through such trouble to suck all the joy out of.
I also have my doubts about hinging this alleged global decline of reading and/or attention spans on one class of US undergraduate students.