During a podcast interview today, I was asked whether more women than men read fiction. I was taken aback, as it seemed a very nineteenth-century observation. I thought of Mr. Collins protesting that he never read novels and boring the rest of the Bennett family by reading aloud Fordyce’s Sermons. On his side, however, I noted my recent visit to MN wher…
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