America is a country that no longer reads: Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series currently occupies all four of the top four spots on the New York Times a bestseller list. In other news, America is a deeply unserious place. [UPDATE: See the comments for some correction on this. The Freakonomics posted is actually fairly lightly sourced and he never actually says which bestseller list he saw.]
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 11:20 AM
Labels: America, books, Harry Potter, Stephanie Meyer, the snobbery of the literati, Twilight, vampires
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