She joined the NY Times in 1997 and rose to executive editor, the first to hold that rank who has acknowledged her tattoos, as well as being our first guest to have written books about both a supreme court justice and her own puppy. Among her current activities, she is a guest lecturer at Harvard. Plus music from Celtic fiddler Hannah Read. At Macaulay Honors College.

•  PERSON: her sister, Jane O’Connor
•  PLACE: the #1 train
•  THING: the Sunday NY Times
•  RANDY’S THING: a deftly folded newspaper