Q: What if poets and novelists wrote the news?

A. You’d  get a Wall Street Report like this:

“Everything’s okay. Everything’s like usual. Yesterday trading ended. Everything’s okay. The economists went to their homes, the laundry is drying on the lines, dinners are waiting in place.”

Honestly, what else do we really need to know?

For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and asked  some of Israel’s finest authors and poets to cover the day’s news.  [The Guardian Books Blog]

[Listen to July 4 NPR Weekend Edition Interview with Dov Alfon]