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Today on Writers & Company - Part I: John McPhee, described by the New York Times as the most versatile journalist in America, talks about the craft of writing and about earthquakes. Part II: Eleanor talks to clinical psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison about the link between manic depressive illness and the artistic temperament.

Interview with one of America's leading cognitive scientists, Steven Pinker. His last book, The Language Instinct, was a surprising bestseller. Now he's taken on an even more ambitious project - how the mind works.