[lit-ideas] Re: What if we show the book on TV?
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- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:26:37 EDT
What constitutes "literature" in this study? Are they drawing lines between
fiction and non-fiction? Classics and new authors? Is "literature" merely
"books"? Or "anything in print that isn't news"? I don't know what "literary
reading" means....
Julie Krueger
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Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline
July 8, 2004
New York, N.Y. - Literary reading is in dramatic decline with fewer than half
of American
adults now reading literature, according to a National Endowment for the Arts
(NEA) survey
released today. Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America
reports drops in
all groups studied, with the steepest rate of decline - 28 percent -
occurring in the
youngest age groups. The study also documents an overall decline of 10
percentage points in
literary readers from 1982 to 2002, representing a loss of 20 million
potential readers. The
rate of decline is increasing and, according to the survey, has nearly
tripled in the last
decade. Only slightly more than one-third of adult males now read
literature. Only 14
percent of adults with a grade school education read literature in 2002.
http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html
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