Subversive Reading

A short NY Times Magazine Piece covers the PATRIOT ACt.

Margaret Talbot says there is a way in which what the librarians have been protesting is symbolically important, even if most of us wouldn’t, as a practical matter, much care whether our borrowing records, with their overdue Dr. Seuss books, were made public. There is a way in which reading is a stand-in, and a reading list a short-hand, for a life of the mind, an interior life, that librarians rightly feel ought not to be violated. It’s not so much the reading itself they sense needs protecting, but what makes us want to read.

September 28, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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