Arguing that composition should renew its interest in reading pedagogy and research Chasing Literacy offers writing instructors and literacy scholars a framework for understanding and responding to the challenges posed by the proliferation of interactive and multimodal communication technologies in the twentyfirst century. Employing casestudy research of student reading practices Keller explores readingwriting connections in new media contexts. He identifies a culture of accelerationa gathering of social educational economic and technological forces that reinforce the values of speed efficiency and changeand challenges educators to balance new faster literacies with traditional slower literacies. In addition Keller details four significant features of contemporary literacy that emerged from his research accumulation and curricular choices literacy perceptions speeds of rhetoric and speeds of reading. Chasing Literacy outlines a new reading pedagogy that will help students gain versatile dexterous approaches to both reading and writing and makes a significant contribution to this emerging area of interest in composition theory and practice.