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Have we lost the art of reading?

Have we lost the art of reading?

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No disrespect, but...when President Trump threw a Great
Gatsby-themed party for Halloween, it kind of missed the point of
the book. And, it's not just Trump. A quick search online, and
you'll see a lot of people increasingly misinterpreting other
famous books.

Are people just bad at reading? Are we just laying our own biases
on top of classic texts? Or is something else going on?

Andrew Limbong, host of NPR's Book of the Day, and writer-critic
Princess Weekes join Brittany to dissect novel interpretations of
literary fiction. They look at what these re-interpretations say
about our current moment: from what we want from a book to how
books lose meaning online.

(0:00) Why 'The Great Gatsby' gets misread
(6:07) How 'Lord of the Rings' became a Christian Nationalist
text
(12:46) Literary Interpretation vs. Media Literacy
(16:34) The rise of BookTok
(19:28) The consequence of missing the point of a book

Follow Brittany Luse on Instagram: @bmluse

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