Fear
Karen Thompson Walker: Be Very Afraid
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