On reading, from a new book by UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf "...when you lose the novel, you lose the ability to go into another person’s perspective.
My biggest worry now is that a lot of what we’re seeing in society today — this vulnerability to demagoguery in all its forms — of one unanticipated and never intended consequence of a mode of reading that doesn’t allow critical analysis and empathy. "
On reading, from a new book by UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf "...when you lose the novel, you lose the ability to go into another person’s perspective.
I tend toward nonfiction, so have been forcing myself for a while to the novels - both The Greats - (Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, The Brothers K) and simpler/easier novels.
My nonfiction has convinced me that reading fictions is a moral obligation.
