The Lost Art of Reading

Prove Philip Roth wrong in his prediction that in a few decades serious readers will be nearly extinct. Take up the torch of thoughtful literacy argued for so capably and passionately by David Ulin, in this expansion of his potent Los Angeles Times essay.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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