Marathon Readings

The marathon reading, a format of communal public performance that has more in common with the filibuster than the conventional literary reading, is growing in popularity in the age of the Internet, according to Kathryn Hohlwein, a professor emeritus at California State University. Ms. Hohlwein is the head of the Readers of Homer, a nonprofit group that has been putting on marathon readings of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" around the world since the 1990s ... wsj.