A review by elisekatherine
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, and Civilization by Martin Puchner

3.0

We were cruising into a solid four star rating with this one right up until he got weirdly snide and dismissive about Harry Potter at the end. Literary dismissal of popular fiction being kind of a bugbear of mine, that knocked a full star off. Sorry, Martin Puchner - this book otherwise was a great assessment of the path of literature across the globe and over time. Though I would have loved to see him delve deeper into the world of writing online (not just self-publishing) - fanfiction, Twitter flash fiction, creepypasta, and other forms of digital storytelling.

Ah well.