{
  "id": 18924932,
  "title": "Love story: literary speed dating in an age of declining readership",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/08/love-story-literary-speed-dating-in-an-age-of-declining-readership",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-08T11:40:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "RFI English",
    "slug": "rfi-english",
    "url": "https://www.rfi.fr/en/culture/20261108-love-story-literary-speed-dating-in-an-age-of-declining-readership"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This week saw France hand out its biggest literary awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Renaudot. However, reading is on the decline, with only 56 percent of French people describing themselves as regular readers in 2025, down 5 percentage points from 2023. But might those numbers rise if reading was a way to meet your soulmate?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}