Lawrence Weschler on Authenticity

Studio 360

Kurt Andersen and writer Lawrence Weschler talk aboutauthenticity and the gray areas between truth and fiction.

Weschler is a staff writer for The New Yorker, andthe author of many books, including Boggs: A Comedy of Values, Calamity ofExiles, and Mr. 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.

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