Frontline's "To Catch a Trader"; Chang-Rae Lee's New Novel; Gary Shteyngart; 2014 Winter Jazzfest

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 6, 2014

Frontline correspondent Martin Smith talks about his investigation into Steven A. Cohen and his firm, SAC Capital. Chang-Rae Lee talks about his new novel, On Such a Full Sea, set in a future America that strictly stratified by class. Gary Shteyngart discusses his memoir, Little Failure, about leaving the Soviet Union for the United States in the late 1970s. We’ll get a preview of the 10th annual Winter Jazz Fest with composer and musician Henry Threadgill and pianist Jason Moran.

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