Proust and the Squid

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

Author

Maryanne Wolf

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Copyright

2007

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Wolf addresses the ways in which the brain adapts—or fails to adapt—to reading. An excellent history, as well as a compelling glimpse at the ways in which reading on the screen may yet create a new kind of literacy.