• Nadine Gordimer remembers Nelson Mandela in the New Yorker.

• Thousands of fast food workers walked off the job yesterday to demand a living wage. $45 billion earmarked for charity is sitting in so-called “donor advised funds” run by big banks, and legally, it could sit there forever.

• A Florida city paid millions to house homeless people in filthy, crime-ridden slums.

• Could you use $30,000 to finish a major work of non-fiction? Enter to win the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, deadline Dec. 10.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]