Novelist Rebecca Goldstein on Light

Studio 360

Kurt Andersen and novelist Rebecca Goldstein look at the ways artists, dancers, and filmmakers play with light.

Goldstein is the author ofProperties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics,The Mind-Body Problem, andStrange Attractors. She holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from Princeton University and in 1996 was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

(Originally aired: April 21, 2001)

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