“A couple of weeks ago, I was feeling a small wave of despair about being a writer and teacher at a time when common wisdom holds that ‘no one reads anymore.’ But then some of my UC Riverside students sought me out on campus to thank me for introducing them to a book.”
Author Susan Straight argues that “books’ power to connect is as potent as ever.”
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