Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction and by a wonderfully clever

and by a wonderfully clever plan of their own

A book to unlock imaginations of both children and adults

a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest

and they know her

Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction and by a wonderfully cleverIn recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a