A Gateway Drug for Literacy?

Do video games lead children to reading? An article in The New York Times suggests that some librarians, educators, publishers, etc. believe they do.

I agree that video games may foster certain types of learning and may help children acquire digital literacy skills; however, I'm skeptical that having a video game tournament at the library or bookstore will result in long lines of gamers at the check-out line.

What my copy editor taught me

I need a Helene.

Spare time reading

Here are a few titles of interest:

1. Walk the Blue Fields - Claire Keegan
2. A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar
3. Nobody's Home - Dubravka Ugresic
4. The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross (who was recently named a MacArthur fellow)