Tag: Reading as a Skill

• Difficult Literature and the Skill of Reading

  Some thoughts on reading as a distinct skill, from Mauro Javier Cárdenas, Jessa Crispin, and Zadie Smith.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  May 5, 2021

  On Reading

  Genre Fiction vs. Literary Fiction, Jessa Crispin, Michael Silverblatt, Reading as a Skill, Zadie Smith

• What Do We Mean By “Readable”?

  Some remarks by Sam Byers on the “readability” of contemporary literature.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  May 18, 2019

  On Reading

  James Joyce, Reading as a Skill, Reading for Style, Sam Byers