""Enjoying this headline? You're a rarity: Reading for pleasure is declining ..." was the topper to a story by my colleague Hailey Branson-Potts in August. Pleasure reading among American adults fell more than 40% in two decades - a continuation of a trend going back to the 1940s. I get it. We don't want to read for fun when we're trying to wade through the sewer of information we find online and make sense of our terrible political times."
"Adolfo Guzman-Lopez's warm voice has informed Angelenos about arts, politics and education for 25 years on what was long called KPCC and now goes by LAist 89.3. What most listeners might not know is that the Mexico City native first earned acclaim as a founder of Taco Shop Poets, an influential San Diego collective that highlighted Chicano writers in a city that didn't seem to care for them."
Pleasure reading among American adults declined by more than 40% over two decades, extending a trend that reaches back to the 1940s. Short, accessible formats such as essays, short stories, poems and picture-driven works can provide solace amid overwhelming online information and turbulent political times. Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has informed Angelenos about arts, politics and education for 25 years on KPCC/LAist 89.3. Guzman-Lopez previously earned acclaim as a founder of Taco Shop Poets, a San Diego collective that highlighted Chicano writers. His anthology California Southern: Writings from the Road, 1992-2025 showcases prose-like audio dispatches and regional perspectives.
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