Worried their kids don't read enough. Worried that contemporary society is turning into one big, bad, simplistic sound bite. Reading entertains us. It educates us. It broadens our perceptions and deepens our sensitivities.
Books are very cool.
Ben Hogan's Five Lessons has sold more than six million copies. It is the most popular golf book of all time. Golf books in general are staging a steady, quiet resurgence. Some, such as John Feinstein's A Good Walk Spoiled , even make best seller lists. Guthrie Kraut is riding high on the waves of this renaissance.