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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Approachably Reclusive: A day down the toilet, why boys don't read fiction anymore, and the how-to of personhood

Approachably Reclusive: A day down the toilet, why boys don't read fiction anymore, and the how-to of personhood: And that, I think, is at the heart of the "why don't boys read and what can we do about it" perennial uproar. (No, not hanging out in bars and looking hot, which I'm sure has fans of both genders.) I mean that crucial difference between valuing experience and relationship to other people, versus achievement and relationship to the self.

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