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RSSLendleBlog: The death of the serious reader
Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and Freedom:
For serious readers, Franzen said, “a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience”. “Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this text that doesn’t change,” he continued. “Will there still be readers 50…
Someone should set him up on a date with James Daunt [Waterstone’s MD]. He’s always moaning about “Serious readers” every five minutes.
Perhaps at the end of the evening, they can pop back to a branch of Daunt Books - a serious bookstore, for serious booklovers, and fawn over the over-priced Hardcovers, resplendent in their leather bound covers¹
¹Which one must buy with leather bound notes. Held in a leather wallet. To go with the leather sofa. God I need to re-watch Black Books…
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