Being a Sunday some long reads; an interview with American cartoonist Robert Crumb on his reaction to the Charlie Hebdo murders, life in the Nicaragua markets and the other side of Silicon Valley.
East of Silicon Valley’s Eden
Silicon Valley is one of the world’s most affluent regions but it has it’s poor areas, across the road from Facebook’s head office sits one of the area’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. East of Palo Alto’s Eden tells the story of segregation and disadvantage that has left East Palo Alto behind the rest of Silicon Valley.
Robert Crumb on Charlie Hebdo
‘I thought, I gotta do it. They asked me. I gotta do it…Otherwise, everybody’s going to think: “Where’s Crumb? Why doesn’t he come forward? What the hell’s the matter with him?”’
Legendary US cartoonist Frank Crumb, now resident in France, gives his views on the Charlie Hebdo murders.
How a family survives on $4.50 a day
A good story on the tough life of Nicaraguan market traders who live on half the national minimum wage.