Tales of Passion

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Lakers coach Phil Jackson relives his team’s notorious 2003-2004 season in The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul. Then, Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, studies the symptoms and side effects of exuberance—from creativity to risk-taking—in Exuberance: The Passion for Life. Next, Award-winning Filipino American novelists Jessica Hagedorn and Han Ong join us for a discussion of their work. And acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) discusses his disturbing new film set during WWI: A Very Long Engagement.

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