News Flash: New Report on Reading and Literacy in America

by NDK Creative Artist

…I tell you this report on a recent survey explains a lot about the state of American culture and its role in the world. No wonder it is the way it is! I mean the insight into Republican reading habits…hah! No wonder they’re so hopeless at managing the Duperpower!

How many books did you read so far this year? I’ve finished 4 in the last two months. I still have a stack of 5 I’m getting through. I’m currently close to completing O: the Intimate History of Orgasm by Jonathan Margolis, a simply fasinating look at sexual attitudes that contains some of the initial ideas that promote the gender wars and male-female tensions, and patriarchal hegemony we see around us in society today, but which also looks at how the sexual revolution has been going on (it’s still revolting, but there’s an end in sight); I tell you it didn’t start in the Sixties! As a bonus reading this book is dovetailing very nicely into my university degree where I’m currently studying Gender as a part of a popular culture course, for my communications degree. I read nonfiction (news, information research, and textbooks) during the day and fiction at night (unless I have assignments due) to keep my input balanced and my intellectual perspectives and viewpoints broad. How do you read?

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