Gervais, Lit Therapy, Textbook War

Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011

Kurt talks to Ricky Gervais about making audiences laugh wherever he goes: on TV, on stage and in a podcast. The Miami Poetry Collective takes poetry to the streets. Literature students want to put characters from the classics on psychotropic medication. And hear how a 1970s West Virginia battle over textbooks changed them forever.

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