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In this new kind of interview show, Randy Cohen talks to guests about a person, a place, and a thing they feel strongly about. The result: some great talkers tell stories they never have before. Visit PersonPlaceThing.org.

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Oct 25, 2013

Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer at the New Yorker, has written about genocide in Rwanda, the National Front in France, arranged marriage in Queens, and James Brown, well, everywhere --  each in its way a focus of intense emotion.  He reports on harrowing events with lucidity and insight, filling readers with terror but not driving them to despair.  And he knows his torah.