Lucy Liu & The Wild Tchoupitoulas

Studio 360

Kurt Andersen talks with the actor Lucy Liu, the action-movie badass who for two decades has quietly pursued a side career as a painter. The young writer Daniel Alarcn, born in Peru and raised in Alabama, returns to South America in his novels. Plus, the stranger-than-fiction story behind the cult movie The Room, and a visit with New Orleans royalty, the Wild Tchoupitoulas.

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