“Freedom is not freedom from connection. Serial killing is freedom from connection. Certain large investment firms have established freedom from connection. But we as people never do, and we’re not supposed to, and we shouldn’t want to. We are individuals, obviously, but we are more than that.” Joss Whedon speaks to Wesleyan’s graduating class.
“You are all going to die”
Financing Cloud Atlas
The multinational production of the (Millions favorite) Cloud Atlas movie, "in all its glorious confusion, also serves as a guidepost to the future of the film business."
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Dispatch from Mississippi
Students from the Mississippi Schools for Mathematics and Science share poems and essays about life in their home state, inspired by William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright.
The War with Drugs
Recommended Reading: An excerpt from comedian and Year In Reading alum Rob Delaney's memoir, Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. "I haven’t been to war, so I can’t comment on what that experience is like, but people who go through rehab or a halfway house walk a tough road together and not all of them make it."
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Telegraph’s Books of 2011
To get geared up for our own "Year in Reading" series, here is The Telegraph's best books of 2011.