Tales of a Medical Renegade: 'The Lobotomist'
Journalist Jack El-Hai is the author of The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. El-Hai is the executive vice president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and a winner of the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism.
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The Auteurs of 'Inside Deep Throat'
Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato are the team behind Inside Deep Throat, a documentary about the 1972 porn classic Deep Throat. We talk with them about their movie -- and the original.
Prose's 'A Changed Man'
Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews A Changed Man, the new novel by Francine Prose.
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