Keep an eye on The Faster Times for nonfiction books coverage.  Mostly I’ll be covering what strikes my fancy, but would like to focus on stories that go underreported.  Yesterday’s post featured recommendations on books about Iran by Alternative Radio founder David Barsamian. The Faster Times is a brand spankin’ new news/culture site, whose mission is as follows: The crisis of American journalism is, instead, a financial crisis. Opinions posted on blogs are cheap. Great journalism is expensive. So, the question is not whether there is a way to keep up with the constant appetite for news, but whether there is a way to keep up without foregoing great writing and reporting. There will be many different answers to the questions facing the journalism…