THE FEED: MAR 12TH

What we're reading:

Bard to go

Will kids understand Shakespeare better if they don't have to sit still? (Guardian)

A show of letters by J.D. Salinger

Salinger's dam of silence has sprung its first leak (Wall Street Journal)

Atheists en masse

Thousands of non-believers zealously converge in Melbourne, Australia (BBC)

What's in the David Foster Wallace archive?

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas inherits the mess of papers he had stashed in a dark garage over-run with spiders (New Yorker)

Today's quote:

"By focusing on criminalising a government and making military intervention the top priority’, he argues, ‘[the Save Darfur Coalition] has made peace more elusive and increased the suffering of ordinary Darfuris."

~ Rob Crilly, author of "Saving Darfur: Everyone’s Favourite African War", in a review by Philip Hammond, "Darfur: every celeb’s favourite African war" (spiked review of books)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com