Emily Bazelon

Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor.A few days ago I asked her what she was reading. Her reply:I just finished Warm Springs, by Susan Richards Shreve. It’s a memoir about the two years she spent at a recuperation facility for children with polio established in Georgia by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1920s. The waters at this Georgia spot were supposed to have healing qualities, and Shreve