Glenn Frankel on Shooting Midnight Cowboy

(3/22/21) The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Glenn Frankel’s latest book, Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic, tells the story of the controversial 1969 Oscar-winning film that signaled a major change in American popular culture. The movie’s boundary-pushing subject matter earned it an X rating when it was originally released. Join us for a look at the film that unleashed a new wave of innovation in American cinema in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.