I spent my whole life putting Karen in that horrible night, in that horrible place where I saw her and identified her body and I couldn't let that image go. The book helped me do that and so now she lives again.
Tommy came to read at Purdue University, where I was teaching at the time, just after "There There" had come out. I was in charge of taking Tommy around. Over the course of driving him around, we started to realize that there were all these uncanny symmetries in our stories, interests and experiences, from having a shared love of "The Simpsons" and basketball, to addiction in our various and sundry life story histories.
Gen. David Petraeus, the retired U.S. Army general and former CIA director, will discuss his new book, 'Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza,' delving into the history of warfare.