Books & Co.

My latest NYT “Beliefs” column, about how Ken Starr became a Sunday school teacher (more or less), can be found here. And I reviewed Lisa Miller’s Heaven here.

I have recently taped NPR’s Here and Now, although I don’t yet know when it will air. My wife loves Here and Now, and I hope host Robin Young felt complimented when I told her that the only thing that would please my wife more is if I were being interviewed by Ira Glass.

The book party in NYC was a bunch of fun: a live debate between me, Hanna Rosin, and a couple superstar young NYC debate champs. It was blogged about here and here.

I have been trying to get into the whole Twitter thing. I like it more than I would like blogging, since my brilliant insights tend to be either about 140 characters long or 5,000 words long, but not much in between.

Am currently reading the new book about neighborhoods by Peter Lovenheim.