James Patterson writes: "But an adult who absorbs words only through captions, tweets, posts, memes and—at best—smartphone-screen-size articles is not literate. Not in my book anyhow. I’d argue—and not just for the sake of my day job as a novelist—that if we’re not in the habit of reading books or, at least, long-form articles that take us the better part of an hour in the course of an entire day, we are fundamentally damaging our society’s fabric, and our future."
A paean from James Patterson to the beauty of deep reading. His grants to school libraries, bonuses to independent bookstore employees and now this essay make me appreciate him so much more!