Betting against books

Published December 19, 2025 5:45am ET



Ray Bradbury gave a characteristically prescient interview to the Seattle Times over 30 years ago, in 1993. “The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading,” the Fahrenheit 451 author said. “Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us — it’s all junk, all trash, tidbits of news.”

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