The texts, not the readers, matter.
Journalism should be done as if the readers mattered.
And I'm not sure that e-readers matter, for that matter.
It's really understanding readers, what matters to them.
In one study, we probed New York Times readers about matters such as lying about their income.
Several years later, when Theodore Dreiser, then the editor of The Delineator, sought a writer who could educate his middle-class readers in matters of domestic style (other columnists included H. L. Mencken on baby care), de Wolfe was the obvious choice.
While Monique P. Yazigi has done her bit to enlighten readers on matters of restaurant dinner party etiquette ("Charm School," April 5), she also has contributed to the perplexing phenomenon of seemingly obvious statements presented as instructional material.
Ultimately, though, it is readers who matter most.
A difficult novel, let's say, "The Brothers Karamazov," will take most readers a matter of weeks to "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" (as "The Book of Common Prayer" has it).
She is the co-editor of two law school casebooks, Civil Procedure: Doctrine, Practice and Context (3rd. edition 2008) and Women and the Law (4th edition 2007), and a reader, Family Matters: Readings in Family Lives and the Law (1993).
