Anatole Broyard was the editor of the New York Times Book Review. When his doctor diagnosed prostate cancer, he wrote: “When you learn that your life is threatened, you can turn toward this knowledge or away from it. I turned toward it. ... It sounds trite, yet I can only say then I realized the first time that I didn’t have forever. … Nothing was casual anymore… I understood that living itself had a deadline. How can you not be curious about the world? The street, houses, trees, shops, and movement and the stillness. When my wife media hamburger the other day, I thought it was the most fabulous hamburger in the world! This is how life ought to be without the threat of death hanging over us.