It’s easy to get burned out on book festivals after awhile. The self-promotion! The over-indulgence of bad books! But: “Generally speaking, you also need to read well in order to navigate and to function efficiently inside the world of electronic media. TV doesn’t tell you how to understand TV. No medium has yet arisen that can challenge print as a medium of cultivating intelligence. And novels have a role to play in this regard, as well, because the language of a good novel is prose used to its maximum effect.”