Laura Kipnis Looks at Her Personal Life, and the Public Eye, When It Comes to Men Behaving Badly

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 9, 2014

Laura Kipnis talks about her book Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation, a collection of essays exploring why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the page. In it, Kipnis revisits the archetypes of wayward masculinity that have captured her imagination over the years, scrutinizing men who have figured in her own life alongside more controversial public examples.

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