by Sofia M. via Visually. Over 60% read for 5 or more hours a week. Surprisingly, according to the World Culture Score Index the average american reads almost 5 1/2 hours a week. There is still hope.
Reading at Chipotle: Cultivating Thought at a fast food restaurant
McDonald's has had it occasional kids book in a Happy Meal promotion but Chipotle is going all out with the introduction of a new author series, Cultivating Thought curated by Jonathan Safran Foer. The series of "two-minute reads" presents: the words and whimsy of thought-leaders, authors and comedians through unique, you’ll-only-find-them-here essays, each illustrated by a different artist. We’re hoping this will allow people to connect with the musings of these writers with whom they may or may not be familiar and create a moment of analog pause in a digital world, provoking introspection or inspiration, and maybe a...
The Book Cops of Delaware
Master Cpl. Gary Tabor of the Wilmington, Delaware police department had been in plenty of homes during his time in the major crimes unit and he realized there was at least one common denominator - the lack of books in the home. Then he heard about the correlation between books in the home and higher graduation rates from high school and the light went on and "The Book 'Em Cops and Kids Literacy Initiative" was born. Since the program began almost 6,000 books have been distributed for free and for many of the kids it is the first book they ever...
Nadine Gordimer: Icon
As part of his series 21 ICONS South Africa filmmaker and photographer Adrian Steirn pays homage to Nobel prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer. She is the first artist to be included in the series and his "Alice in Wonderland" portrait celebrates her "profound love of books and writing' by having her sit atop life-size copies of some of her books and if you ever wondered where Gordimer stands on going to school to learn how to write: “Read and write. Don’t go to creative writing class. You can’t be taught to write. You can be taught to be a good journalist, but you cannot...
Burning the grass where the Nazi’s burned the books
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people” - Heinrich Heine It's time for our annual look at one of the greatest examples of biblioclasm in history, the Nazi book burnings. On May 10, 1933 over 30 burnings took place across Germany and upwards of 25,000 "un-German" books were torched. "You are doing the right thing at this midnight hour—to consign to the flames the unclean spirit of the past. This is a great, powerful, and symbolic act. . . . Out of these ashes the phoenix of a new age will arise. . . . Oh Century! Oh Science!...