Expressing Their Viewpoint in a Literary Way

I’m jotting this down with about an hour left of Sunday.  I started today in New York City, the Borough of Brooklyn to be exact, and to save money and for whatever other high-minded reason, I didn’t buy a Sunday New York Times which costs more here where I live, eight miles south of the Washington Monument, than it does in New York City itself where I actually, physically was present.  Online, glancing through my Really Simple Syndicated (RSS) Reader just now, I realize I would have been clipping articles from that paper today, one after the other, snip, snip, snip, preserving juicy chunks of literarily expressed wisdom.  I thought about posting the articles on Facebook but  is that any place to put something important to you?

I wanted to preserve three articles each written by an author, Margaret Atwood, a Canadian, Martin Amis, a Britain, and E.L. Doctorow, an American, in which each were asked to “consider the question of America and its role in global political culture.”   Never mind that I agreed with the politics behind the articles: I make it a point to avoid politics on this blog.  I immortalize the pieces here, spill my own ink on this page, because each is a well-written, literary expression of opinion, of commentary.  One is fiction, one memoir, and one satire.  This blog celebrates the literary, whether by offering ways anybody can act literarily any day they feel like it, or by showing off examples of literary writing.  Here are links to the articles.  Let me know what you think.

Marty and Nick Go to America  (Martin Amis)
Hello Martians.  This is America  (Margaret Atwood)
Unexceptionalism – A Primer  (E.L. Doctorow)