[...] The survey found that men (37.6 percent) were doing less literary reading than women (55.1 percent); that Hispanics (26.5 percent) were doing less than African-Americans (37.1 percent) and whites (51.4 percent); but that all categories were declining. The steepest declines of any demographic group are among the youngest adults. In 1982, 59.8 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds read literature; by 2002 that figure had dropped to 42.8 percent. In the 25-to-34 age group, the percentage of literary readers dropped to 47.7 from 62.1 over the same period. [...]
| That's one of the statistic graphs from Bruce Weber's New York Times article "Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds" on the 2002 Census Bureau study "Reading at Risk," out tomorrow. If you're near the New York Public Library today, tell 'em Negrophile sent you.
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