The Morning Reading: Lessing: "talking about books and education when they had not eaten in three days"

AS THE YEAR winds down, fewer writers come our way. What to do? Read. Write. Wait for the new year. They'll come back. We'll be there.

So, for today - check out what Doris Lessing has to say in her acceptance speech for her Nobel Prize.

Anna Karenina in Southern Africa.

The hunger for education.

Sustenance.

Resistance.

Read, she said.