Kurt Andersen talks with Lynn Nottage, the playwright behind the Pulitzer prize-winning play, “Ruined.” Arts critics are forced to get resourceful when their old funding sources dry up. And out in the Mojave Desert, 82-year-old Gene Winfield designs the cars of the future.
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