Provides a different context to a recent piece in The Atlantic about public disavowal of book reading (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/kanye-w

Provides a different context to a recent piece in The Atlantic about public disavowal of book reading (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/kanye-west-sam-bankman-fried-books-reading/672823/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/kanye-west...). It seems actual book reading has become passe in certain circles, to the point where people are reacting to it as a superficial pretension — some by denouncing the loss of the real thing, others by proudly admitting they don't read them.