Meredith Monday Schwartz
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5,660 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Meredith Monday Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the reason that this was top of mind for me, Katie, is because the Atlantic, the cover of The Atlantic this month said the age of reading is over.
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That was the cover.
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Like disappears.
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Yes.
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The age of reading is is over.
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It was telling us.
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It was just very, very depressing and just despairing, really.
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And so the the article itself, I mean, it's a grim piece full of existential dread, full of all sorts of stats that we all know, right?
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Like the most upsetting one is that apparently.
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Those of us who read
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50 or more books a year, which certainly 50 is a lot.
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And certainly 50 is not like some sort of basement in my mind, but just the fact that only four percent of adults read 50 or more books a year.
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And right, exactly.
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So that is kind of an interesting one.
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But the article, which is really, really interesting, and I highly recommend that you read it by Rose Horwich is
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It argues that America has gone fully post-literate.
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Which is I've been reading that too.
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Right?
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It's upsetting.
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But one of the things that it says that is really interesting, which is probably the reason that I actually had decided to make my bookish moment of the week, is it talked about the fact that even those of us who read a lot, and we hear this all the time, Katie, we say it to each other.
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