“Reading—what sort of subject is this? There are ‘reading scores,’ and ‘my early reading,’ and ‘reading the future.’ There are neurology and pedagogy and linguistics and dyslexia and lipreading. And then there is plain reading for information and pleasure—neither very plain indeed….”
[If you’d like to read the rest of this important essay, you can find it here transcribed as a Microsoft Word Document.]
Excerpted from: Hardwick, Elizabeth. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick. New York: New York Review of Books, 2022.
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