Kurt Andersen and writer Lawrence Weschler talk aboutauthenticity and the gray areas between truth and fiction.

Weschler is a staff writer forThe New Yorker, andthe author of many books, includingBoggs: A Comedy of Values,Calamity ofExiles, andMr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder. He teaches courses in thefiction of non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence and Columbia University School of the Arts.His new book on the conceptual artist Robert Irwin will be published later this year.

(Originally aired: March 3, 2001)