“I think it is fair to say that the best of our students are even abler than their parents or their grandparents, but because we are in a different age now, where we are visually over-stimulated, where the screen has taken the place, to a considerable degree, of the book, it takes them a while to learn how to read more deeply and more comprehensively,” says Harold Bloom, author of The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life.