reading habits
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The 43 Percent
The National Endowment for the Arts recently published its Annual Arts Basic Survey, and the news isn’t so great for literature. As reported by Dani Spencer at Electric Literature, only 43 percent of American adults read a novel, short story, poem…
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A Personality Test for Readers
What kind of reading would best suit someone with your personality? Lit Hub has an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Psychobook: Games, Tests, Questionnaires, Histories,” edited by Julian Rothenstein, that shares Robert McCrum’s questionnaire of ways to gauge readers personalities by their reading diets.
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America’s Reading Habits
The Pew Research Center has released an interesting set of data on reading in America, and it’s not all bad. In fact, their data indicates, among many things, that print books are far from obsolete—and actually dominate e-books—and that reading consumption…
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Let Us Now Praise “Putdownable” Books
We hear enough about page-turner books, but what about those books that are easy to put down? For Book Riot, Brenna Clarke Gray takes another look at books that don’t often get a second look: The unputdownables will power you…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with David Rivard
David Rivard discusses his new collection Standoff, writing as both a public and private act, the interiority of reading, and Pokémon GO.
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How to Make Reading a Habit
You tell yourself you should read more, but are you finding it hard to even pick up a book? Fret not; you’re not alone. Get yourself started one step at a time with some helpful tips from Tomas Laurinavicius at the Huffington…
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Read More, Live Longer
In a recent study, researchers found that people over fifty who read more—books in particular—lived an average of two years longer than those who didn’t read at all: The researchers discovered that up to 12 years on, those who read for…
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Reading against Time
As a child, I loved it when a book took me somewhere else. I still do, but I’m more surprised and grateful now to be transported by words on a page from one world to another. Perhaps because, as grown-ups,…
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Reading for a Paycheck
At Electric Literature, Nick Politan reports on a new study that suggests that reading in childhood has a link to financial success in adulthood. Politan, however, is critical of the study, which he argues reduces books to their “capitalist value”:…
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Reading Books in Bars
At Bustle, Lindsay Merbaum writes about her experiences reading books at bars and how some men feel threatened by the presence of a single woman reading: Perhaps what is so subversive is not just the aloneness of a woman at…
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Reading Mademoiselle Gantrel
We squinted into the smoky room and saw ourselves on junior year abroad, frolicking on the Left Bank with artists in berets like hers.
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The Read Along: Omar Musa
In the second installment of The Read Along, Omar Musa shares how airplane delays can lead to productive reading sessions and how easy it is to get sucked into Internet wormholes about geodesic domes.