Award-winning playwright, author, and celebrated gay-rights advocate Larry Kramer discusses the first installment of his multi-part novel: The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart. Early English settlers face homophobia, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton revel in unexpected intimacies, and John Wilkes Booth's motives for assassinating Abraham Lincoln are thoroughly revised.
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AM on April 9, 2015