More from around the blogosphere
I’ve been quite busy lately with freelance work that I am slacking a bit on original posts/content. So here’s more from around town…
- A “crisis of belief”: The WSJ wonders “Will this crisis produce a ‘Gatsby’?” and discusses literature, the Depression, and Sherwood Anderson:
In particular, Anderson found the people he met to be imprisoned by what he called the “American theory of life” — a celebration of personal ambition that now seemed cruelly inappropriate. “We Americans have all been taught from childhood,” Anderson wrote, “that it is a sort of moral obligation for each of us to rise, to get up in the world.” In the crisis of the Depression, however, that belief appeared absurd. The United States now confronted what Anderson called “a crisis of belief.”
(via ALD.) - DFW in The New Yorker with more and more (via kottke.) I am now sorely missing The New Yorker.
- Guernica interviews Bernard Henri-Levy (from 2008-Nov), who was recently on a roundtable discussion on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, which is one of the few shows that attempts to discuss issues and not politics.
