Run for Cover

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
On today's show: Our Underappreciated Literature series continues with an examination of the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Also, a new documentary takes us inside a hospital emergency room in the Gaza Strip. And a former Iraq correspondent for Time and Newsweek shares his satirical novel about life in the Green Zone. But first, Brazil’s most prominent climate scientist will explain how the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is contributing to global warming.

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