Hard Times

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Keith Glass, a longtime agent for basketball players, tells us why he feels the NBA is in trouble. Then, artists Dorothea Rockburne and Lynda Benglis look back at an exciting creative period in the late 60s and mid-70s. Plus, a new novel based on a real WWI-era campaign in which women suspected of having venereal diseases were sent to detention homes. And short story writers Rick Bass, Mary Gordon, and George Saunders compare notes.

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