The Columbia College Library is presenting a month-long series of events for the annual BIG READ. The featured book is Ray Bradbury's masterpiece, Fahrenheit 451.
What is the BIG READ? Glad you asked. From the site:
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts released a report entitled, Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading, and its findings revealed that during the period 1982-2002, reading has declined at a high rate among all ages, but particularly in the younger age groups. As a result, the National Endowment for the Arts developed the BIG READ initiative in 2006 to address this problem, with the fundamental goal of restoring reading to the center of American culture.
Visit the site and check out The BIG READ. You don't have to attend the events to get a lot out of this series -- heck, go buy a copy of the book and follow along online.
Reading less as a society is a scary thought. Or are we just reading more junk?
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