Frank Basile is one of the city’s premier philanthropists, sitting on nine not-for-profit boards and (along with his wife, Katrina) handing out funds to arts groups ranging from the Indiana Repertory Theatre to the Phoenix Theatre to the Indiana Historical Society.
But his “office” isn’t some walnut-lined sanctum. Often it’s a quiet table at his default meeting place, the nearest Panera Bread.
Basile’s taste in dining establishments perfectly sums up his management style. Esc...

BEAU BAYH HAS every right to feel a bit angsty just now.
Last November, he turned 30—a milestone that can send anyone into a tailspin of existential dread. But not Beau Bayh. He doesn’t “do” angst and dread. At least not in public. It isn’t his style. Or his family’s, for that matter.
“Thirty has been great,” he says. “I’m turning 30, running for office, and practicing law, and it’s all been exciting and sometimes stressful, but overall pretty positive.”
There’s no time to wallow in self-pity....

INSTEAD OF producing another devastatingly quirky novel along the lines of Looking for Alaska, Paper Towns, or his breakout The Fault in Our Stars (which has sold some 30 million copies, making it one of the 21st century’s most popular books), he has released a nonfiction volume under the auspices of Crash Course Books, his new imprint from Penguin Young Readers.
Published last month, Everything Is Tuberculosis tracks the medical, political, and cultural history of a disease that kills around 1....