"None of my kids read." | Writer Alex Schulman | Louisiana Channel
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“I have three kids. None of them read. And I have books everywhere in my home.” Meet prominent Swedish author Alex Schulman reflecting upon children’s alternative ways of storytelling today, why he feels that not reading a book isn’t a catastrophe but still has a certain melancholy about it.
“There is something about opening a book, and everything around disappears. Maybe they will never experience this, and I am sad about it.”
Alex Schulman (1976) was born in Skåne in the south of Sweden and grew up in the Stockholm suburb Farsta. He has had a successful career as a journalist, blogger, television and radio host and has produced several stage performances. Since 2012, he has run Sweden’s most popular weekly podcast, Alex & Sigge, with several hundred thousand listeners every week. Schulman made his literary debut in 2009 with Hurry to Love, dedicated to his deceased father, the journalist and television producer Allan Schulman. In 2011 he published his second book, To Be With Her, about his wife. His third book, Forget Me, about his relationship with his alcoholic mother, was named Book of the Year in Sweden in 2017. In November of 2018, his fourth book, Burn All My Letters, was published and became a runaway bestseller. Burn All My Letters has been unanimously praised by readers and critics alike. It was featured on the prestigious critics’ list in Sweden’s biggest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter for five consecutive weeks. Schulman made his big international debut with his fifth book and first novel, The Survivors, published in 2020. Sold to thirty-three countries and published to great critical acclaim worldwide, The Survivors has established Alex Schulman as a literary force to be reckoned with on the global stage.
Alex Schulman was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at his Danish publisher Lindhardt & Ringhof in September 2021.
Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard
Edited by Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2022
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I was never interested in reading until I was interested in writing. But neither of my parents were into reading so it’s something I had to come to myself.
I hated reading until I was around 16. But a friend got me into reading fun books and that started it for me. Judy Bloom's Wifey and the first VC Andrews series. So stay calm, the reading habit might be developed later.
Maybe it has something to do with the specific books he’s chosen for his kids to read? I remember not being into reading much when I was younger, but I loved dinosaur movies, so my mom got me a book about two kids who travel back in time to the dinosaur age. I’ve read hundreds of books since then.
It’s a similar problem I’ve seen in schools; parents and teachers want the kids to read, but they don’t take the time to find subjects/stories that would interest the kids.
But to be fair, I don’t know the specifics of what books he’s giving to his kids, so maybe he’s already tried this.
I don't think what Schulman is talking about has anything to do with specific book topics or subject areas. I think his observations are more systemic. Neuroscientists such as Lauren Singer Trakhman at the University of Maryland, College Park and Anne Mangen at the University of Stavanger in Norway are demonstrating through reading comprehension studies that: (1) subjects miss many more details when reading on screen compared with books; (2) by comparison, digital reading impairs comprehension, especially for more complex texts; and (3) print materials are far more likely to activate the medial prefrontal cortex and cingulate cortex which are areas of the brain involved in processing emotions. Though there is certainly far more research to be done in the future, these and other studies suggest that a shallowing of information processing may be taking place in digital reading compared with exposure to analog texts, especially in brains that are exposed to a constant barrage of super-fast digital media -- sources of information that may train the brain to process information faster but far less thoroughly. The brain is not a computer, it has no switches. A constant exposure to pre-packaged digital media may, in essence, leave areas of the brain that specialize in processing emotions, along with visual and spatial cues, severely under-exercised. We hold books, we touch them, we smell them, we perhaps even taste them...we hear the pages flip and snap, we linger, we invent our own original worlds from those texts based on unique interpretations generated by our own brains and, most importantly, at our own pace. It would indeed be a sad outcome if an entire generation were no longer capable (or patient enough) to enter the enchantment of that physical experience.
I read a fair amount as a kid. Then I got distracted while growing up. A few years back, I picked up One Hundred Years of Solitude and went on a Gabriel Garcia Marquez binge. Now with all of his books read, I'm back to the distracted phase.
Maybe books related to their hobbies or interests! I really didn’t enjoy reading until now and I’m 23.
Should have limited the children's access to the devices allowing a fixed amount of usage, and made reading a priority. We have become vigilant in our household on this matter, to the point of a screen-free Sunday. Also, the children are not allowed to bring devices to mealtime.
just talk to them, write letter for them. words important for you or not? fight through letters, through conversations. find essays and science works about reading for yourself, remember what you're forget, retell them. storytelling it's not enough. desire for language, love to crawling into somebody's head and thoughts, respect for somebody's mind, feel of language, how we live in language world and need more thin difficult language - it's important. you are writer, Alex, sweet!! be a rock-star, say to them WHAT TICK-TOCK, YOU ARE NOT WORKING EVERY DAY, IT'S NOT ONLY WAY TO RELAX FOR US, YOU ARE MY CHILDREN OR WHAT. say to them, how you're don't want to they're will be stupid and ordinary. storytelling it's not all, text, brain work... reading it's forcible, flipping through pages it's pain a little bit. don't love it too much, but I need to read a lot. my brain need it, it's best what I can after own writing
he sounds so disappointed lmaooooo "idk what i could've done"
as they often say you should give your kids a good example so that they understood how cool it is to read. but nowadays it is much cooler to watch tiktoks which makes me sad. tiktok is not a storytelling.. or it is, but an extremely poor one
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I read. Mostly 19th C stuff. Western expansion, Exploration, Mormonism (an obscene sex and death cult), stuff like Western Wilds and The Men who Redeem Them, Mark Twains stuff, Reference books on trees, bugs and such, psychology. Untill "yesterday" everything we know is in books. Never believe a TV set
Mobile phone is very very addictive , It have very limited positive points ......
have maps/google/wiki on the your palm is “limited positive points” to you?
reading in overrated. its the experiance you get thats important not the medium
the amazing part about reading is the ability to interpret, you dont get to do that with video. when you read its all in your head you can imagine it how you'd like
@@OddoFelacio You move in different speeds while writing, reading and talking.
It's like going, cycling or driving, three different languages.