In fact, many of the most widely read (and taught) literary works qualify as one-sitting reads.
I already knew two people in New York: Eléonore Ament, a pianist trained at Juilliard, who had been my roommate on Kibbutz Beit Alfa, in Upper Galilee, and Laurent Jenny, a friend from the good old activist days of May 1968, who taught literary theory at Columbia.
She is a contributing editor for The Nation magazine and teaches literary journalism at the University of California at Irvine.
Miles Corwin, who teaches literary journalism at UC Irvine, is a former Los Angeles Times reporter and the author of five books, including "Homicide Special: A Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit".
With no schools to teach the literary language nor any native nobility to support the literati who used it, the dialects appeared for the first time and began to be written in the paper manuscripts that constituted almost the only form of publishing available to those using Irish.
We also have a growing list of pages devoted to teaching literary classics alongside Times nonfiction.
Take the book which is all the rage in high school English departments, Critical encounters in high school English: Teaching literary theory to adolescents by Deborah Appleman.
As a college instructor, I have taught the literary theories and works of both Lewis and Tolkien.
The novelist Benjamin Kunkel, in his recent essay collection "Utopia or Bust," extolls the criticism of Jameson, who has taught Marxist literary theory at Duke University for decades.
He told BBC News: "There is no group of people who want to encourage a love of reading more than English teachers but this is more than a matter of teaching our literary heritage, you need to choose texts that are appealing to children".
