2: Writer MICHAEL BERUBE (pronounced "BEAR-ru-bay"). He's written for The New Yorker and The Village Voice. He's a professor of English at the University of Ilinois and is the author of the new book, "Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child," (Pantheon Books) about the birth of his son in 1991, Jamie, who has Down syndrome, and how that has affected their life. BERUBE writes in the introduction, "individual humans like James are compelling us daily to determine what kind of 'individuality' we will value, on what terms, and why."
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