Book Review The Art of Reading I think that Damon Young’s The Art of Reading, which was written in 2016 and Maya Book's thought series in 2018, did not see the attention it deserved. I don’t know why, but when I stop and look from a distance, I can say that we are witnessing the rarity of reading with everyday mess and every day the accessibility of the writing increases. So this rarity is an ‘art’, really? I’m not sure. But considering that reading could someday disappear completely, things start to look very strange for people whose job is ‘the book’, right?