![]() ![]() The latest salvo in this tradition of self-advocacy is Karen Swallow Prior's piece at the Atlantic, in which she claims that reading-or at least the right kind of reading-has important spiritual and moral implications. "Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul," insists Joyce Carol Oates, who has apparently never seen a movie or had a conversation. “There is no friend as loyal as a book," announces Hemingway. “The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy," says Flaubert. Writers, with a parallel enthusiasm, insist that we need reading. ![]()
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