Today is a special day. I’ll be interviewing Maryanne Wolf, author of the incredible book Reader, Come Home. Her book is a call to action for anyone frustrated with how the digital landscape has decimated their reading brains.
Here’s some even better news! This is a live event and members of my book club can join as off-camera audience members to ask her questions. If you want to attend this event, plus get access to future author interviews and our weekly book club sessions that I host on Tuesday nights, you can join here.
When: The interview will be today at 3:00 MST / 5:00 EST and will last 1 hour.
Where: Online in our private reading community. Click here to review the event.
Here are the questions I intend to ask her today:
- What is the reading brain and why should we pay attention to it?
- How has the digital landscape impacted our reading brains?
- In your book, you mention struggling to read Magister Ludi. Can you tell us about that?
- What are your tips for reading deeply?
- Why do we feel differently when we read physical books or perform analog tasks?
- How can we be better students of the books we read? How can we retain more?
- Many people post on social that they’ve read 50 or 100 books this year. What’s your take on these statements?
- If you could teach a child just one lesson about reading, what would it be?
- How do book clubs and reading communities influence the reading brain?
- If you could only read one book for the rest of your life, what would it be?
I may not get to all of these questions, but I’ll do my best! I hope to see you all there today.
Until then, read slowly – take notes – apply the ideas.
-Eddy
