![]() ![]() ![]() A poll released last month by The Associated Press and Ipsos, a market-research firm, found that the typical American read only four books last year, and one in four adults read no books at all.Ī National Endowment for the Arts report found that only 57 percent of Americans had read a book in 2002 a four percentage-point drop in a decade. One thing is certain: Americans-of either gender-are reading fewer books today than in the past. Explanations abound, from the biological differences between the male and female brains, to the way that boys and girls are introduced to reading at a young age. Surveys consistently find that women read more books than men, especially fiction. McEwan's prognosis is surely hyperbole, but only slightly. Nearly all of the takers were women, who were "eager and grateful" for the freebies while the men "frowned in suspicion, or distaste." The inevitable conclusion, wrote McEwan in The Guardian newspaper: "When women stop reading, the novel will be dead." Within a few minutes, they had given away 30 novels. He and his son waded into the lunch-time crowds at a London park and began handing out free books. You Must Read This: NPR talks with authors about their favorite "buttonhole" books - the ones they urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby.Ī couple of years ago, British author Ian McEwan conducted an admittedly unscientific experiment. ![]()
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