The Last Season

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Lakers coach Phil Jackson describes the team’s notorious 2003-2004 season in his new book, The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. Then, Paul Rudnick, Doug Beane, and Wendy Wasserstein join us for a discussion of the inaugural Tribeca Theater Festival. Created by the founders of the Tribeca Film Festival, the Theater Festival seeks to recognize and pay tribute to the downtown theater scene. Next, Stephen Elliott explores his ambivalent love affair with America’s electoral process in Looking Forward to It. And Jonathan Rosen, author of the critically-acclaimed novel Eve’s Apple, joins us to discuss his latest work of fiction: Joy Comes in the Morning.

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