How does news travel on the web? Slowly.Last month, a blog called The Morning Oil posted two little-known audio files featuring novelist Flannery O'Connor. The first is a lecture on the grotesque in Southern fiction. The second is the author reading what is probably her best-known short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find."And … Continue reading 2 by Flannery O’Connor

Oregon's bunny-book-burning mom has repented. Says the Associated Press, "Taffey Anderson says she will make the book [The Book of Bunny Suicides] available for the Central Linn School District's review committee to screen. The Halsey woman recently said she would burn the book rather than take a chance on it returning to a shelf at … Continue reading The Bunny Is Back

It's on again. The Hennepin County approved county funding for the proposed planetarium atop the new downtown Minneapolis public library, reports the Star Tribune. All that's left now is for the Minneapolis Planetarium Society to raise a mere $20.5 million. You can donate your nickel at http://www.mplanetarium.org.--David E