{
  "id": 18102578,
  "title": "A Syllabus for Attention: Megan Mayhew Bergman on John Elder’s Reading Life",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/a-syllabus-for-attention-megan-mayhew-bergman-on-john-elders-reading",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-04T09:09:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/a-syllabus-for-attention-megan-mayhew-bergman-on-john-elders-reading-life/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Twenty years ago, when I first came to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont, we let our cell phones die. There was no signal. We were moving off-radar. I remember the feeling of immersion almost physically. There was nowhere",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}