theorywatch

A little musing on the power of weak relevance today: my example being this story on how reading fiction may enhance social skills, found courtesy of blogger Jake Seliger at The Story’s Story, which I found while searching for a blog by Gabriel Zaid (which, sadly, I haven’t yet found), author of So Many Books (which everyone who hasn’t already read should read, even though I feel obliged to point out that Zaid’s own view pretty much represents the exact opposite of that suggestion!) So, anyway, here’s the blog of these University of Toronto researchers on “the psychology of fiction” for all you reader’s advisory folks, who might perhaps find it to be “strong relevance”….