You are not reading enough / Has the Internet killed the joys of sitting down with a good book?
Mark Morford, I empathize with you completely. Also, you just namechecked Haruki Murakami, which wins you points.
“I barely read books anymore. Not nearly like I used to, anyway. Not for a long, long time. And chances are, if you’re at all addicted to the new media vortex, neither do you.
It’s become a social conundrum, a cultural sore spot, a morose sign of the times. The question has been posed by agents and writers and a confused, hyperconsolidating publishing industry: What happened to all the readers? What happened to the culture of books? And the hint of fatalism, just underneath: If few truly read anymore, what of the state of the American mind? How much more dumbing down can we possibly stand?”
