Kurt Andersen and writer Lawrence Weschler talk aboutauthenticity and the gray areas between truth and fiction.
Weschler is a staff writer forThe New Yorker, andthe author of many books, includingBoggs: A Comedy of Values,Calamity ofExiles, andMr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder. He teaches courses in thefiction of non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence and Columbia University School of the Arts.His new book on the conceptual artist Robert Irwin will be published later this year.
(Originally aired: March 3, 2001)
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