Slow Reading Slow Gaming

Ian Bogost just sent me this. On the phone to my editor Lindsay Waters in early 2006 I said we really need to make a push for “slow reading”—a phrase that he really liked and developed into a number of essays and conference panels.

Apropos of the post itself, and its proposal that we read the first word of A Tale of Two Cities: I always teach the first word of The Picture of Dorian Gray, “the.”