Russell Brand declared in an interview in the Guardian on 4 February that he had had it with the currant bun. "I ain't ever reading another copy of the Sun until I've read the complete works of Goethe," he quipped. So it was interesting to see Brand give an interview to the Sun just one month later on 2 March, following by a bylined article on 6 March. Goethe, whose opus includes epic poems, prose, drama, and literary and aesthetic criticism along with some 10,000 letters (all in German) would be proud of Brand's speed-reading capabilities.
