Summer Friday: Kara Swisher; Susan Page; Memory; Meg Jay; Revisiting Childhood Homes

For this "Summer Friday" we've put together some of our favorite conversations this year:Kara Swisher, tech journalist, host of the podcasts "On with Kara Swisher" and "Pivot" and the author of Burn Book: A Tech Love Story (Simon & Schuster, 2024), tells her story as it overlaps with that of the tech industry, and what's gone right and where it's gone wrong.USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page talks about her latest book, The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters (Simon & Schuster, 2024).Charan Ranganath, PhD, professor of psychology and neuroscience at U.C. Davis, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab, and the author of Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters (Doubleday, 2024), explains what we know about remembering and forgetting.Meg Jay, developmental clinical psychologist and the author of The Defining Decade and her latest, The Twentysomething Treatment: A Revolutionary Remedy for an Uncertain Age (Simon & Schuster, 2024), offers advice for navigating the extremes of trivializing and over-medicating the struggles of young adults today.Faith Hill, staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about what people are looking for when they visit their childhood homes, and how it can be stressful, or sweet.   These interviews were polished up and edited for time, the original versions are available here: Kara Swisher's 'Tech Love Story' (Mar 29, 2024) Politics, and the Life of a Broadcast Trailblazer (Apr 29, 2024) - Part 3 How Memory Works (Mar 7, 2024) A Way Through the Mental Health Struggles for Twentysomethings (May 16, 2024) Searching for Something in Our Childhood Homes (May 23, 2024)