This is Inside the New York Times Book Review. I'm Pamela Paul. What's it like getting old?

And how are baby boomers handling it? Michael Kinsley talks about that and more in old age,

a beginner's guide. The World War II generation will be remembered for the enormous

heroism they showed in winning World War II. And what will we have to show? Plus,

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consequence, a memoir. I wasn't questioning the legal application of these techniques,

but I was certainly the front of beginning questioning the moral, the moral application.

The Pulitzer's were announced this week, and novelist Viet Tainouin is here for a victory visit.

And I love to sudden the Twitter feed, Facebook feeds are to blow up, and I had to really double

check to make sure that was true. Alexander Alter has literary news, and something new.

I'll talk with Greg Cole's and Parle Sagole about what we and other people are reading.

Lots of you know Michael Kinsley's byline, a founder of Slate and Editor at Harper's,

the New Republic, the Washington Monthly, pretty much every major magazine and newspaper.

In 1994, Kinsley was diagnosed with Parkinson's. He was only 43. His essay about that diagnosis,

the aging process, about how boomers are dealing with getting old, ran in the New Yorker in 2014.

He's now expanded that essay into a new book, Old Age, A Beginner's Guide. Mike, thanks so much

for being here. Oh, my pleasure. The book is called Old Age, A Beginner's Guide, and it's a great

title and a great subtitle, and I'm curious, did you come up with the title before you wrote the

book, or did that come out of the writing of the book, and how did you get there? Oh, I wanted to

call it. Mine is longer than yours, which was the original title of the piece that comes out of it.

But they decided that Tim Dugan's book, that was too vulgar. So you were overruled?

Yeah, and we played around with an introduction to Old Age, where should the colon go?

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