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Reading literary fiction improves empathy, study finds
New research shows works by writers such as Charles Dickens and Téa Obreht sharpen our ability to understand others' emotions – more than thrillers or romance novels, writes Liz Bury
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American adults have low (and declining) reading proficiency
The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey. Over the last two decades Americans reading proficiency has declined across most age groups, and has only improved significantly for 65-year-olds.
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Neil Gaiman: 'Face facts: we need fiction'
It's essential that children are encouraged toread and have access to fiction if we are to live in a healthy society
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Substitutions That Make Reading the News More Fun
The latest xkcd comic “Substitutions” is a list of humorous phrases that, when substituted into a serious news story, make reading the news considerably more fun.
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I Was Drugged By A Stranger
One night at a music festival, someone put something in my drink. What happened next was humiliating and taught me how common these incidents are, and how easy, and wrong, it is to blame the victim.
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Gwen
A short science fiction story of a man who searches for his lost wife.
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Bill Gates' Top 7 Books In 2013
The Microsoft co-founder and one of the world’s richest men lists his favorite reads of the year. Note: Not all of them came out in 2013.
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Why Do I Write?
‘Why do you write?’ This is a question that I often ask myself. And typically when I’m in the shower and pretending that I’m famous and being interviewed by NPR or the New York Times or something like that — c’mon, you know you do it, too. But it’s a good question. And the answer I give is usually the same: ’I started writing because I felt alone and sad one day. And it’s one thing to tell people you feel alone and sad. And it’s another to tell them a story about loneliness and sadness.’
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Upload PDF and EPUB files to Google Books on Android
Google now lets you upload your personal reading content directly from your Android device. This offers a much more convenient way to read the things you want, rather than just what's available on the Google Play Store.
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Best Books About the Rest of the World
From the catastrophe unfolding in Pakistan to a great novel about Yugoslavia, here are 10 books about the rest of the world that deserve your attention writes Kapil Komireddi.
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The science behind fonts (and how they make you feel)
I’ve noticed how seemingly small things like font and the spacing between letters can impact how I feel when reading online. The right font choice along with the absence of sidebars and popups makes everything feel easier and better to read.
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MONSTER PORN: Amazon Cracks Down On America’s Latest Sex Fantasy
Author Virginia Wade's fiction debut follows a group of women who embark on a week-long camping trip to Mt. Hood National Forest. There, in the shadow of Oregon’s highest mountain, they are kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a mysterious woodland creature. "What the hell is that thing?" asks one protagonist.
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How a book really can change your life: Brain function improves for days after reading a novel
Many people have claimed that reading a special book has transformed their life, but now scientists have discovered that enjoying a novel can make a real, measurable change in the brain too.
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Efforts To Ban Books On The Rise
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
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The Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn't Read
A recent stroke left one 40-year-old woman with some unusual symptoms.
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CNN analysis: Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders
CNN investigation reveals an alarming number of college athletes who read as low as an elementary school level.
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The science behind fonts
I’ve noticed how seemingly small things like font and the spacing between letters can impact how I feel when reading online. The right font choice along with the absence of sidebars and popups makes everything feel easier and better to read.
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Is the News Replacing Literature?
In the postwar period, a generation of critics, inspired by Lionel Trilling, encapsulated the difference between high art and popular art in a single word: “complexity.” “Literature,” Trilling wrote, “is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity and difficulty.”
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Madefire: A Startup Transforming Reading and How We Make Books
In Los Angeles, we hear a lot about storytellers. And that almost everything is story – a film, a song, even a brand’s legacy. But, not counting oral tradition, the original story was the book. Reading was an original form of entertainment, especially as mass printing became widely available. Madefire, a startup in Berkeley, California, and with a business development base in Los Angeles, aims to change the way people think of reading.
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Hate reading slowly? Spritz aims to allow people to read 1,000 words per minute
Essentially in Incognito Mode for three years, Spritz surfaced to show off its reading software that will enable people to read at 1,000 words per minute.
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