Provocations, Speculations, & Reflections On The Future Of Reading & Writing: Determining The Portents; Deciphering The Entrails…

One can barely go on the internet or pick up a print journal these days without reading a new gloom-and-doom prognosis about books and writers, and by implication the process of reading and writing.

Over the weekend I read another variant on the “writing and reading as we know it is dead” theme, from Guardian columnist, Will Self. Titled “The Fate Of Our Literary Culture Is Sealed“, the article (although he terms it a “provocation”) culminated in this quote:

‘I began this provocation by describ...