In which we focus on Iceland's thousand years of literary endeavor, from the sagas and eddas through Halldór Laxness and on to Arnaldur Indriðason. (It helps that we just visited.)
In which one of my assignments to Medill graduate students is taken to task by one of its subjects, and an online discussion ensues on the merits of branding.
In which I interview Dr. Martin Marty about his new "biography" of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers from Prison" at the 2011 Printers Row Lit Fest.