Foreshadowing a Tragedy

Studio 360

Kurt talks to two creative writing teachers, Laura Kasischke and Joshua Furst, about this week’s massacre at Virginia Tech. The gunman, Sueng-Hui Cho, wrote plays and fiction that troubled faculty and other students. But for teachers, identifying a psychopath through his writing is not as easy as we might like to believe.

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