Rob Walker writes the weekly column "Consumed," for the New York Times Magazine...
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kay Redfield Jamison tells Jim Fleming that suicide is epidemic in our society and usually associated with a major mental illness.
Nancy Drew just turned 75 and still wields immense influence on the women who grew up reading her.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Historian Joseph Persico tells Jim Fleming that Roosevelt loved the thrilling, clandestine aspects of espionage, and had to learn to appreciate the advantages of electronic spying.
"Ghostwalk" is an intellectual thriller set partly in Isaac Newton's time and concerning his interest in alchemy.
Singer and pianist Marcia Ball talks about the various kinds of Blues and how they differ from what she usually plays.
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