It’s always tempting to say that someone who wrote an influential book on an issue wrote the definitive book. Hardly ever the case. But in this instance totally the case. In 1998, William L. White wrote Slaying the Dragon: The … Continue reading
Author Archives: Adam Wahlberg
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Founder of Think Piece PublishingThe Think Piece Interview: Jack El-Hai
Jack El-Hai wrote much of his groundbreaking Walter Freeman biography The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness at Sebastian Joe’s ice cream cafe in Minneapolis, so that’s where we met … Continue reading
The Think Piece Interview: Dr. Lewis M. Andrews
Dr. Lewis M. Andrews is that rare intellectual who believes in divine intervention. He experienced it several years ago after giving a lecture on common therapy, which is his thesis that there are common truths to be found in all … Continue reading
The Think Piece Interview: Dr. Monica Coleman
Dr. Monica Coleman stands at the intersection of two worlds that don’t have a natural intersection: faith and science. She is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a professor at Claremont School of Theology, and suffers from mental … Continue reading
The Think Piece Interview: Dr. Darold Treffert
Remember the term idiot savant? Dr. Darold Treffert never much cared for it. A generation ago he set out to redefine savants in the public mind, and insist on usage of a new term: savant syndrome. In the process he … Continue reading
The Think Piece Interview: Rosemary Rawlins
It was April 2002. A beautiful Saturday morning in Glen Allen, Virginia. Rosemary Rawlins was unpacking groceries, her twin 13-year-old girls were entertaining themselves, her husband, Hugh, was putting some miles on his bicycle. Then the call came in. Hugh … Continue reading
The Think Piece Interview: Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon is the antithesis of glib. When he speaks, or writes, it’s with precision, depth, and a singular voice. He doesn’t do pat answers. He’s much more interesting than that. In 2002 he wrote a masterwork with his exhaustive and … Continue reading
The Think Piece Interview: Carmen Gentile
Carmen Gentile knows about war, and so knows about loss, and so knows about pain. He’s an international reporter who covers war for USA Today and other media outlets, and in 2010 he became likely the only person in the … Continue reading
Announcing Beneath the Armor: A Caregiver’s Story by Rosemary Rawlins
It’s our great joy to announce that Beneath the Armor: A Caregiver’s Story by Rosemary Rawlins is now available for sale for $2.99 in our store. It’s a remarkable story about how Rosemary’s life changed forever on April 13, 2002, … Continue reading
The Think Piece Interview: Dr. Claudia Osborn
On July 11, 1988, Dr. Claudia Osborn, a prominent physician practicing internal medicine in the Detroit area, was riding a bicycle when a car going the right wrong way struck her. She got thrown in the air and landed on … Continue reading