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The Art of the Read never wrote itself as a manifesto about reading. There's no hubris here. It wanted to loudly think how reading shapes attention, judgment, memory, and interior life-especially under modern conditions of speed, distraction, and overload.
The Art of the Read is not a reading list. Because the list can't converse with you and the books are just tired titles and the authors are in a state of askance.
So instead, The Art of the Read focuses on rebuilding a small set of capacities that modern life quietly erodes.
The fact is: it mattered always. But right now, it happens to matter more. Because, we're reading more than ever, yet understanding less.
This book did not begin as a project. It began as a pressure. And just wrote itself, meandering through umpteen unpaved terrains of emotions and states.
Attention was once guided largely by intention. Today, it is increasingly guided by design.
Once a laboriously built skill that demanded spending money, skimming today is what kids today are born with.
Scrolling looks like reading. Neurologically, it is not. The belief is the most romantic deception of the 21st century intellect.
In response to distraction, we tried to outrun it. Speed-reading techniques, summaries, compression tools-each promised to help us “keep up.”