Bad Readers of the 21st Century: BookTok and the Commodification of the Novel
Vladimir Nabokov’s essay “Good Readers and Good Writers” formed the foundation of his literature classes taught at Cornell in the 1940s and 50s. In the essay, Nabokov argues that certain traits distinguish “good” readers from “bad” readers. A “good” reader, according to Nabokov, rereads books, has a robust imagination, and separates the fictional worlds in …
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