With young people’s social media use “near universal” but its true impact on mental health not fully understood, Dr. The United States surgeon general is warning there is not enough evidence to show that social media is safe for children and teens – and is calling on tech companies, parents, and caregivers to take “immediate action to protect kids now.” She says with a laugh: “It was really crazy that I spent five years of my life doing this!” “America is an amazing land full of storytellers,” she says.She’s also aware that some people would find her compulsive need to map novels slightly, well, obsessive. Straight is also a collector of stories as she travels, including the ones she hears from gas station attendants, truckers, and truck stop servers. “If you want to know how somebody in Alabama feels, read one of the books set in Alabama,” she says. Ms. Straight says her literary map rejects red-state/blue-state divisions in favor of human empathy and understanding. That was super fun.” She calls her project 1,001 Novels: A Library of America. Beyond the map’s cool factor, the featured novels offer insights into the people of a particular place. “Here’s the 7-Eleven or here’s the campground in Alaska. If she wasn’t certain, she contacted the authors. “I tried to find exact locations for everything,” she says. Instead, using Google Maps, she pinpointed the places where each of the novels was set. And she didn’t simply plunk a marker down in the middle of a state and call it good. Straight, a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, started a project – just for fun – to create a literary map of the United States. As she passes through regions of the country on one of her epic road trips, she views people and landscapes through the lens of literature. Growing up, “Books were this huge deal to me, and books were how I learned about America,” she says in a video interview. When Susan Straight travels, she sees novels. When Americans travel, they see mountains and valleys and oceans.
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