Jay Rothermel’s Reviews > On Close Reading > Status Update

....defense of literary reading against its rivals in the realm of cultural consumption too often resorts to a reductive emphasis on attention in an effort to save literature. If the immersive reading of long novels, for example, is offered as the chief case of failed attention among our students, it is easy to point to video gaming as a counterexample. This form has the effect of powerfully fixating attention....