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Think green: To read up on the biggest news story of the week you probably just want to go straight to Twitter or Sullivan, but if you want to step back for some in-depth reading about the complex and surprising culture of Iran you could turn to one of the best-received recent books on the subject, Hooman Majd's The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (see his fascinating author video below), or check out the list of 10 books to read on Iran recommended for us a couple of years ago by Democracy in Iran author Vali Nasr.

Video: Hooman Majd on The Ayatollah Begs to Differ

Bloomsday 2.0: For the past three years, Ians Bogost and McCarthy have honored Bloomsday, June 16, by recreating the Tweet-friendly Wandering Rocks section of Ulysses via a series of Twitter threads. I'm a little too stupid to figure out how to see them all today, but I do find some active posting by noted Dublin denizens Stephen Dedalus, Blazes Boylan, and Martin Cunningham. Meanwhile, local Seattle brainiac Charles Mudede (writer of Sundance-feted films Police Beat and Zoo) celebrates Joyce's liberating attack on the oppressions of the English language.

Academic malpractice?: Seth Godin's anti-textbook "rant" on Sunday has already brought him more responses than any post he's ever made, which is saying something.

--Tom