2 December 2010: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Audience offered refund after disappointing, too-artsy Steve Martin event.
Australia braces for Wikileak data-dump, though its own low self-image prevents too much worry.
Op: Taking future dumps for granted, let's encourage people to challenge institutions, not pledge further fealty.
Report from one of Earth's coldest places, where burial requires fire.
Astronomers get first peek of atmosphere of a "Super-Earth" exoplanet.
Dumpster-diving personal files from David Foster Wallace.
Op: Unless publishers fight Amazon, books will be sold as--and possibly become--cans of soup.
Purported Kansas eighth-grade quiz from 1895 goes long on orthography.
With only 3% of U.S. population, North Carolina is basketball's global capital.
Profile of Randy and Eva Quaid, who have gone off-grid in Canada to avoid "the Hollywood Star Whackers," who may have killed Heath Ledger.
Letter from Mailer to Hemingway, signed with adorable flair.
Long read: Autopsy of an MI6 agent found bagged in a bathtub.
Apollo awards best in fine art from 2010; Sam Keller wins "personality of the year."
The human choices made in the book are my invention. Interview with TMN's Jessica Francis Kane.
Two quick takes on why America lacks corner pubs; see also: in search of the great D.C. novel.
