Journalism

Just last week, we heard this pronouncement from D. Graham Burnett, a historian of Science and Technology at Princeton on the Hard Fork podcast:

Great insights here. Let's go through them line by line. Graham says:

Longform immersive literacy is coming to an end as a widespread cultural phenomenon.

"Longform immersive literacy" is such a good way to frame deep reading and books. I like the distinction he's deliberately making between deep, contemplative, analytical, "good" reading and fast, cursory, easily distracted skimming, "not so