eating and reading

06/22/09 10:03

Went to see Food, Inc. over the weekend, the expose of the American food industry. Clearly, our appetite for cheap, fast food has serious consequences - animal cruelty and fatal bacteria being two major ones - and it's wonderful that this subject is finally being brought to light.

But my question, as I listen to Michael Pollan give his rules for healthy eating, is: Why stop there? Why not talk about Americans' bad reading habits?

Who's out there railing against the celebrity-besotted magazines sold on newsstands, the brain-numbing novels filling airport bookstores? Junk prose is just as prevalent as junk food in this country, and it's making us as stupid as the other stuff makes us fat.

You hear calls for fresh fruit in high school vending machines; what about copies of the New York Review of Books at the local barbershop? More and more farmers' markets are moving to organic food; yet how many book clubs are replacing Angels and Demons with Gravity's Rainbow?

Where are the new rules for readers? Don't read any book your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as literature. In bookstores, avoid the tables of bestsellers and big-name authors and go to the quiet, overlooked classics. (Veggies for bibliophiles.) Don't buy any book that you see advertised. Don't buy any book that has more than five blurbs. Start your own library.

It's not easy. That copy of Eat, Pray, Love looks awfully appetizing. But pick up A Time of Gifts instead and you'll get a healthy, delicious, satisfying feast.

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