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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Reading for Moral Self-improvement or Therapy Can Occasionally Feel a Little Grim
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'This week’s Sydney Writers’ Festival not only celebrates the art of writing, but the art of reading. Of course, it is difficult not to worry that this might be because the art of reading – that is, deep, critical, transformative reading – has been so radically transformed in the age of big data and Internet skimming that – along with ink and paper – it might be considered to be endangered, too.' (Introduction)

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