Knowledge is key to reading comprehension, says Daniel T. Willingham in today’s New York Times: What knowledge do you need to understand novelists?

For reading comprehension, knowledge is more important than reading skills. It is an obvious idea, once you think of it, but you might not think of it. Here is Willingham’s argument: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opinion/sunday/how-to-get-your-mind-to-read.html?_r=0.

My argument is that one thing you need to know about, to understand novels, is multiple personality, which you can learn here as you read posts on over 150 novelists.