William Safire : Bagels vs. Doughnuts
"In the bagel's adaptive triumph lies the poppyseed of its self-destruction. For the bagel has moved toward the center, and that center has no distinctive hole; its crust has lost its hard-boiled nature." Finally, someone else who thinks blueberry bagels are the work of dark dark forces!
The World This Weekend
on the resilience and resurgence of the printed book. real audio (starts 20:00 - twtw doesn't seem to archive their programs so this will probabaly vanish on october 31)