First a judge ordered a man to write a book report, and now Brazil is offering inmates sentence reductions for every book they read. When did reading shift from pleasure to punishment?
Reading As Punishment
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With Kanye West in the news for doing something stupid at an awards show, what better time than now to point readers to our "Open Letter to Kanye West."
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Explore the Real NW
Explore four of the spots mentioned in Zadie Smith’s NW courtesy of this interactive Penguin Press feature. Listen to Zadie’s own voice and read some of her prose as you explore the streets and buildings. You can also read the book’s first lines over here.
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Writerly Advice
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Recommended Reading: Anna Aslanyan on the challenges of translation and the nonliteral titles of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels. Pair with Janet Potter's Millions guide to finding the perfect title for that book in your drawer.
Bring Me That Book, STAT
See you later, creepy Amazon drones -- delivery dudes on mopeds are the future! There is a new service called NearSt. which is offering book delivery within the hour. So far the service is only available in London, but with over forty London bookshops already utilizing the service, it seems poised to take over at least a small corner of the market.
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Dog Eat Dog
"I haven't been able to write since the moment I started thinking I could or should be making money as a writer." Meritt Tierce with a refreshingly candid piece on writer's block and how success doesn't always negative the likelihood of failure.
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Wow – not punishment but rehabilitation of the highest order!
I have to agree with Meredith. Being rewarded for doing something doesn’t really sound like punishment. Rather it sounds more like a reward for putting real effort into their own rehabilitation.
Sounds like a fabulous idea to me. Wouldn’t reading & writing book reports be a great alternative to solitary confinement?
I don’t see the sentence reduction as a punishment, but as an inducement to better themselves.