Mutant Journalism

I'm to give a talk to a big group of prospective students at Dartmouth College, where I teach creative writing. Here are links to some images and sound I may share. Guess what I'm talking about.
1. Mutter Museum, wall of skulls
2. "Calvinist, Hussar, Deserter, Guerilla"...

Harvesting the little notebooks I often carry, filled with scribbles of words -- some mine, some others -- that seemed urgent and then are forgotten until I return to a stack of the notebooks, looking for something I can't quite remember. Was this it...

Here's a splendid way to avoid real work: A literary map of the United States. That is, selecting a book for each state. Like a state bird. (Vermont's is the hermit thrush.) Brooklyn Magazine made such a list, and although theirs was good, I decided...