Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to ListenEvan Thomas has written many books, but he was still wary before embarking on his latest project, “First,” a biography of Sandra Day O’Connor. “Judicial biographies are boring,” he says on this week’s podcast. I’ve never read a really interesting one; there have been some well-done ones, but not really interesting. “I want to stick with Oregon,” Jackson says. “I don’t know if I’ve exhausted my and my family’s personal experience, but I don’t think that I’ll ever focus on it in the way that I have done in these last two books.”

Source: New York Times March 22, 2019 19:18 UTC