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From the Vault · 2002

On the Loss of Attention

A short essay on the way reading has begun to feel different, written before there was a word for it.

Portrait of James Beauregard
By James Beauregard
Opinion Editor · Atlanta
ATLANTA · September 1, 2002
6 min read
Pulse Chronicles, Vol. XXIV, No. 9, September 2002 — finalist, National Magazine Award for Essays, 2003

I have begun to notice, recently, that I cannot finish a long article in a single sitting the way I once did.

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Portrait of James Beauregard
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James Beauregard

Opinion Editor. Contributing to Pulse Chronicles since 2003.