January 03, 2007
Even as bookstores close, readers flock to writers
The Plain Dealer, December 31, 2006
Americans, especially young adults, are reading less. In the early 1990s, the United States boasted some 4,500 independent bookstores. There are only 1,800 today. In a more literary vein, Case Western Reserve University's Thrity Umrigar mined her Mumbai, India, childhood to write an evocative novel, "The Space Between Us," about an upper-class woman and her domestic servant. Read article.
Posted by: Heidi Cool, January 3, 2007 11:01 AM | News Topics: Arts and Culture, College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty, The Plain Dealer
http://blog.case.edu/caseinthenews/2007/01/03/even_as_bookstores_close_readers_flock_to_writers
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