The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction American Playwrights - Literary Biography ISBN-13: 9781581807288 Publisher: Penguin Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781581807288 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication date: 08/23/2006 Pages: 144 Sales rank: 276

90(d) Detective James Cross has been honorably discharged from the Army Criminal Investigation Division due to wounds sustained when an IED blew up near him

Often underestimated

Whether it’s in the making

The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction American Playwrights - Literary Biography ISBN-13: 9781581807288 Publisher: Penguin PublishingISBN 13: 9780199747498 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication date: 05 26 2011 Pages: 176 Sales rank: 354,671 Product dimensions: 5. 70(w) x 8. 30(h) x 0. 80(d) In 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