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It's no technique that millions of American teenagers, swept up in social media, television, videos, and game titles, don't read very seriously - they relate suffered reading with duty or work, not with pleasure. This indifference has become a grievous loss to your standing as a great nation - and a personal reduction, too, for millions of teenagers who risk turning into people with limited understanding of themselves and the planet. Can young adults be turned on to serious reading? What kind of professors can do it, and what books? To find out, Denby sat in on a 10th-grade English class in a challenging New York public school for an entire academic 12 months and made consistent sessions to a stressed inner-city public university in New Haven and to a respected public university in Westchester State. He read all the testimonies, poems, takes on, and books that the youngsters were reading and creates an impassioned portrait of charismatic professors at work, school room dramas large and small, and fresh and inspiring encounters with the books themselves, including The Scarlet Letter, Daring New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse-Five, Notes from Underground, Long Way Gone, and so many more. Lit Up is a remarkable narrative that traces uncomfortable and baffled beginnings but also exciting breakthroughs and the emergence of pleasure in reading. Inside a sea of bad media about education and the destiny of the reserve, Denby reaffirms the energy of great professors and the value and ideas of great books.
