"Freedom": Which character is Jonathan Franzen? - Salon Reading Club - Salon.com

"Freedom": Which character is Jonathan Franzen? - Salon Reading Club - Salon.com

Hossein Derakhshan awaiting sentencing | cyrusfarivar.com

Hossein Derakhshan awaiting sentencing | cyrusfarivar.com Folks, this is a member of Metafilter, one of the coolest joints on the interwebs. He may be put to death because he used the power of the written word to challenge the Iranian regime. He is a Canadian citizen. I know we Americans are worried about our hikers, but we need to remember Hoder is there as well. As writers and as human beings we should do what we can.

LRB · Elif Batuman · Get a Real Degree

LRB · Elif Batuman · Get a Real Degree The Creative Writing MFA: Does it suck? Let us all pray that it does not.

J.M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature

J.M. Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature

Up to 90% of oysters dead in DMR’s reef sample - Pass Christian - SunHerald.com

Up to 90% of oysters dead in DMR’s reef sample - Pass Christian - SunHerald.com BP killed the oysters. I hope the oysters rise from the dead and with their special zombie oyster powers kick BP in the nads.

Climate change: Siberia is melting

LRB · Tony Wood · Frozenology Ask your climate change skeptic friends to take a gander at this.