📚'Reading has been in decline for decades. The figures among men, especially for novels, are particularly low'
In an interview in 2011, the novelist Philip Roth said he had given up on the art form that made his fortune. ‘I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t read it at all,’ he told the Financial Times, adding that he still made time for history and biography. ‘I don’t know [why],’ he said. ‘I wised up.’ Two years later, former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher expressed a similar sentiment in an interview with GQ. ‘I only read factual books,’ he said. ‘Novels are just a waste of f—king time.
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