Everything is Illuminated Prompt

I hope you are enjoying the film of the week, based on Jonathan Safran Foer's novel of same name, Everything is Illuminated.

To get you started on thinking about the film, you will have noticed by now the strange obsession "JonFen" has for collecting mementos related to events and people. Remember the wall shrine with various souvenirs taped around photographs of his family? What do you suppose at this point in the film is the function of his souvenirs?

For those of you interested in posting on last week's short stories from the Best American Short Stories 2007, do you sense any similar themes in the selections we read? Do you think the editorial decisions of edition editor Stephen King had anything to do with these perceived themes?

And finally, to choose just one, which story was most entertaining or thought-provoking? Did you prefer the depressing suicide that closed John Barth's selection? Were you inspired by the rescue scene that seemed to bring back purpose and meaning to the life of Alice Munro's main protagonist?

See you all Wednesday for another installment of Everything is Illuminated......