It’s time to stop trying to make reading feel like being online. Plus: book-inspired pet names, the Wicked: For Good trailer, and more.
Let me give you the bad news first: we’re doing another round of “why don’t men read fiction?” Now the good news: we may finally be homing in on better questions to ask.
In reviewing a cohort of recent novels about the contemporary male experience, Robert Rubsam hits on the idea that writers know they have to compete with the internet and video games for men’s attention, and he points out that many writers attempt to do this by imitating those other, more dopamine-inducing forms of media.
Andrew Mayden 
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