Life Stories #50: Richard Rodriguez

The essays in Richard Rodriguez's Darling explore his relationship to religion. Whether he's visiting Jerusalem to probe the shared foundations of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, or discovering how his friendships with straight women inform his continued participation as a gay man in the Catholic Church, or elaborating his dissatisfaction with the ways in which the political left has embraced a secular, atheist mindset, his intimately personal perspective on public issues is provocatively engaging, as you'll learn during this conversation.