Your daily brainfood: Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, stops by “Charlie Rose.” Especially helpful if you plan on buying flight insurance anytime soon.
16 years, 9 short stories
“After you settle in as a university professor, things really start to take off. Over the next five years, you write and publish four more stories (at roughly once/year, that’s twice as fast as you published the previous five). You win an NEA Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Residency, two MacDowell residencies, and one of those four stories (which is actually nonfiction) is published in Best American Essays. In 2011, your collection, which you title after that first best American story, is finally published; and that same year you win a Whiting Award and are long-listed for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. At 52 years old, you are a ‘debut author.’ Nine stories; 16 years in the making.
