Karen Thompson Walker, the Park Slope novelist whose recent debut, “The Age of
Miracles [http://www.theageofmiraclesbook.com/],” has everybody really excited
[/blog/art-music/neighbors-in-the-news-summer-reading], just gave a talk at
TEDGlobal
[http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/26/how-to-read-our-fears-karen-thompson-walker-at-tedglobal-2012/]
in Edinburgh this week. Her topic: why fear is actually a
