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P Charbat

EBSCOhost: Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980/Mus... - 0 views

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    This article is about the "Oprah effect" and how much influence her book club has made on American reading habbits. It talks about how she has made reading popular again. This article has a lot of useful information about how exactly Oprah has effected American reading.
Abby Purdy

The No-Book Report: Skim It and Weep - 0 views

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    This article from the Washington Post discusses the problem of aliteracy. Much more prevalent than illiteracy, it is also more insidious because unlike teaching someone how to read, which is fairly straightforward, how do you teach someone to LIKE to read? This article contains statistics on aliteracy in America and interesting ways in which aliteracy has changed the way our society functions.
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