Pursuits Weekly

Why High Culture Needs to Be Taken Down a Peg

The case for abandoning that worthy novel you’ve been slogging through since April.

It’s not like there aren’t other books.

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Hi, I’m James Tarmy, our arts and culture columnist.

With the exception of the few tortured souls who’ve stuck around academia, literally no one I know complains about reading too much.