DaVinci, Diamonds, Saunders
Kurt Andersen — with the help of novelist Anne Rice — searches for clues to how The Da Vinci Code became a worldwide phenomenon. We learn how to grow diamonds in a laboratory, and Kurt talks with George Saunders about his new volume of short stories, In Persuasion Nation.
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