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265. Welcome to the End of Reading
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comNancy and Sarah discuss the latest Atlantic cover story, “The End of Reading Is Here” by Rose Horowitch, who is too young to be writing a story this good (not that that’s relevant). The essay, which provides a historical and statistical overview of the written word, is something of a cold shower: “The literary era will prove to be a brief interlude between the oral and the digital ages.” We talk deep reading, AI, the joys of intellectual discovery, the rise of audiobooks, how to turn a kid off reading…
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