On today’s show: We'll investigate the drag bribery has on the global financial system with Frontline Correspondent Lowell Bergman. Then, an exploration of how one woman's passion for bird-watching bordered between dedication and pathology. And Erik Kraft on his new comic novel Flying. Plus, the rise of MySpace.
Up with the Birds
Phoebe Snetsinger was a frustrated, depressed 1950’s housewife. Then she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and dedicated the rest of her life to bird watching. Olivia Gentile looks at Phoebe's life, her passion for birds and the line between dedication and pathological obsession in her book Life ...
Flying
In Eric Kraft's new comic novel Flying a teenager builds an "aerocycle" in his parents garage and flys it across the country.
Give Me MySpace
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin chronicles how an idea at a Southern California spam mill became MySpace, the most visited website in America. Her book is Stealing MySpace.
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