Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. You can find the text of his Nobel lecture, Art, Truth, and Politics, in the link below. It starts out talking about writing and the relationship of art and truth, then dives into an amazingly poignant political rant of the sort so utterly lacking in American media. If you are lefty, angry, and disenfranchised, I encourage you to check it out:

http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.html