Reading fiction because it is actually better than binge-watching

Yes!  From Ben Dolnick:

And pleasure is, after all — once I scrape away the layers of self-image and pretentiousness — the reason that I read. When I’ve found the right book, and I’m reading it the right way, reading is fun — head-tingling, goosebump-raising fun. It’s a vivid and continuous dream that is somehow both directed from without and cast from within, and I get to be awake for it. Netflix can wait.

I am reading Nobokov’s King, Queen, Knave right now and every day I cannot wait until evening to get back to it.

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Economist at Santa Clara University and Director of Friends of African Village Libraries.
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