Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture

by Jim Collins

Book Overview

Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah's Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346060
• ISBN13: 9780822346067
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"