In This Issue
Check It Out: See Author Antoinette Kennedy in Oregon
Don’t Miss the September Sparks Reading Fundraiser
Study Finds Small Dip in Adult Reading
Check It Out: See Author Antoinette Kennedy in Oregon
Saturday, Sept. 22: Memoir Writing Workshop at the Local Authors Fair, Hillsboro Public Library, 10 AM
Thursday, Oct. 11: The Springs at Tanasbourne senior living, Hillsboro
Don’t Miss the September Sparks Reading Fundraiser
Fuze Publishing is proud to announce a partnership with the Dunbar Alexandria-Olympic Boys & Girls Club for the September Sparks Reading Fundraiser! For the ENTIRE month of September, 10 percent of proceeds from sales of The Pepperoni Palm Tree, The Card People, The Card People 2: Identity Swap, and Behind the Waterfall will go straight to the club to help their mission of empowering children and young adults.
Check out the video below to learn more about this amazing organization.
Study Finds Small Dip in Adult Reading
A new report from the National Endowment for the Arts found that reading for pleasure fell slightly between 2012 and 2017. According to the report, “U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary Reading: 2002–2017,” the percentage of adults 18 and older who read any book that wasn’t for work or school in 2017 was 52.7%, compared to 54.6% in 2012 and 54.3% in 2008. In 2002, the percentage of adults who read a book for pleasure was 56.6%.
In what is likely the biggest surprise among its findings, the percentage of adults reading poetry rose between 2012 and 2017, marking the first time poetry reading has increased in the history of the NEA’s survey of participation in the arts. In 2017, 11.7% of adults said they read some poetry in the prior year, up from 6.7% in 2012. And although the report does not list reasons why interest in poetry rose, it does give some evidence that the boom in interest in Instagram poets such as Rupi Kaur is an important factor in the increase. The report found that between 2012 and 2017, the share of adults ages 18–24 who read poetry more than doubled, placing that age group above all others when it comes to poetry reading rates. The report also found that nonwhite groups, including African-Americans and Asian-Americans, read poetry at the highest rates overall.
The report also found that 41.8% of adults read a novel or short story in the year prior to July 2017, down from 45.2% in 2012 and from 47% in 2008. Between 2012 and 2017, the report found, the declines in novel and short story reading were mainly among women, African-Americans, and adults ages 18–24.
Plays continue to be lightly read by Americans, but their popularity showed a slight increase between 2012 and 2017, rising from 2.9% to 3.7%.
Results of the survey—called the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts—are based on responses from 27,969 adults.
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Adapted from Publishers Weekly; read the complete article HERE.
