Franzen's New Yorker piece: 
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/18/110418fa_fact_franzen?currentPage=all

"With his small round shape and bit of white goatee and a violent flush that could pass for health of some jolly sort, Tiny Ewell looks like a radically downscaled Burl Ives, the late Burl Ives as an impossible bearded child."

British author Zadie Smith's essay, Difficult Gifts, as read by an American voice actress in a British accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdycYu_7p14&list=PL41E832838847FBB9

Sierpinski triangle