{"id":2789,"date":"2009-10-26T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2009-10-26T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:47:33","slug":"philip-roth-predicts-novel-will-be-minority-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2789","title":{"rendered":"Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian online has a story about how novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/oct\/26\/philip-roth-novel-minority-cult\">Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult<\/a>. According to the story by Alison Flood (Monday 26th of October, 2009),<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said it was &#8220;the print that&#8217;s the problem, it&#8217;s the book, the object itself&#8221;. &#8220;To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don&#8217;t read the novel really. So I think that kind of concentration and focus and attentiveness is hard to come by \u2013 it&#8217;s hard to find huge numbers of people, large numbers of people, significant numbers of people, who have those qualities,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if it true that screens take less concentration than books. I can believe it about television, but not about doing things on the screen like programming or even playing a console game. I can finish most books much faster and with less hard work than playing a console game (which may say something about my gaming skills.) Is it really the form of the object (screen vs book) or the content (typical TV show vs difficult novel)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian online has a story about how novelist Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult. According to the story by Alison Flood (Monday 26th of October, 2009), He said it was &#8220;the print that&#8217;s the problem, it&#8217;s the book, the object itself&#8221;. &#8220;To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}