Novelist Rebecca Goldstein on Light

Studio 360 | Aug 3, 2011

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

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

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