Proust and the Squid

The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf

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.

Publisher
HarperPerennial
Year
2007
Collection
Reading
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Selected essays

Writing essays & notes

  1. An addiction

    On To Write Like a Woman and Why We Fear AI

  2. In the world

    In memory of Nevan Scott, 1985–2026

  3. There and here

    On Always Coming Home and Orality and Literacy

  4. The open universe

    On The Language of the Night and The Real World of Technology

Reading books

  1. Lavinia

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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