Bestsellers like the ones by by Hesse, Bradbury, cease to be produced, American novelists as prolific as Steinbeck or Angelou aren't here. Lifestyles have changed from respecable to utter laziness.
The decline in the reading of literature has been well documented by studies done by the Modern Language Association. Now that in itself would not be so troubling, since what interests people as regards the arts is always changing. Literature in the traditional sense is dying out. If the decline in reading such things as novels were being replaced by some other kind of reading, that would not be troubling; it might even be a good thing. But the decline in reading is a general phenomenon across all fields, not just literature.
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