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Best thinks it is possible to break a vicious cycle that doesn’t value education.
2mins
If you don’t have a child in the system, why should you care?
2mins
Best hopes DonorsChoose will nudge the public school system to action.
8mins
Connecting classrooms in need to people who want to give.
1mins
The difference of the urban classroom.
1mins
Think of them as junior parents, Best says.
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Like James Frey, Jonathan Franzen had a colorful public controversy with Oprah and her book club. Given the chance to do it over, would the author of The Corrections handled […]
3mins
Franzen discusses fiction, non-fiction and the need to draw the distinction.
3mins
Jonathan Franzen on his book, Imperial Bedroom.
1mins
Jane Smiley’s “Greenlanders,” among others.
1mins
Franzen’s literary touchstones, decades in, decades out.
2mins
Why not take the opportunity to learn a language?
3mins
Jonathan Franzen discusses the potential for China’s economic collapse.