Once More, with Feeling

If reading a lot of novels gave you exceptional empathy, university English departments should be filled with the most compassionate and generous-minded of souls, and, so far, they are not.

—Adam Gopnik, “How the Internet Gets Inside Us”

(Via Austin Kleon.)

Related post: “Reading Is Overrated.”

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