Bin Laden's Hollywood Ending & Faking Shakespeare

Studio 360 | May 5, 2011

Hollywood comes to Abbottabad. Kurt Andersen says that the ten-year manhunt for Osama bin Laden has played out like a movie, with a surprise ending. Also in the hour, conversations with playwright Tony Kushner and novelist Arthur Phillips, who has written a new play by Shakespeare — anyone can do it, he says. Plus a new short story about codebreaking by author David Leavitt.

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