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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

According to US federal data analysed by Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts, reading for pleasure is in steep decline across every age group in the United States. Most dramatically, the drop is concentrated among young adults, a generation being raised on infinite scroll and ambient distraction. This is not a gentle tapering, but ... See more

Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us

Anti-Social Age

Notes on Derek Thompson's Essay for The Atlantic

Camilo Moreno-Salamanca • 31 cards

“Well, it ain’t his folks paying your bills, I don’t have to be a detective to know that.” Althea puts her hands behind her head and stretches, jutting out a truly mammoth bosom that shades half her desk.

Stephen King • Holly

What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Give the #1 bestseller to everyone you love this Christmas

Television is not old enough to have matched printing’s output of junk.

Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

A recurring theme as technology has changed celebrity is that content output goes up and production value goes down. The production value of a Kardashian social media post is orders of magnitude lower than the production value of an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020

Her thumbs twitching over her phone’s tiny keys, summoning up facts,

Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up

Bookstore and other retail shelf space is shrinking at the same time that total title output is rising. The shift to online sales combined with the shrinking retail shelf space hurts the biggest publishers the most because their competitive advantage is largely built on their ability to put books on shelves at scale. Sales moving online could ultim