On July 8, 2004, USA Today reported that 47% of American adults read "literature"(poems, plays, narrative fiction) in 2002, a drop of 7 points from a decade earlier. Thosereading any book at all in 2002 fell to 57%, down from 61%.Mitchell Kaplan, president of the American Booksellers Association, an organizationrepresenting an industry which sold 23 million fewer books last year than the year before,was quoted in this same article as saying that, "we need to look into what kinds of partnerships we can get into to encourage literacy and the immediacy of the literaryexperience.""Bursts" are literal immediacy. Like life, they are short and imperfect. First lift, then read,and wash your sweet potatoes.Copyright 2005
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