NEA To Promote Book Clubs

“Uncle Sam wants you to join a book club. The National Endowment for the Arts has created ‘The Big Read,’ a program that will sponsor community reading groups throughout the country. Like the NEA’s ‘Poetry Out Loud,’ a national competition that was formed last year, the new initiative is a response to the organization’s 2004 study, “Reading at Risk,” which reported a dramatic rise in nonreading.”