Radio Hour: Satin Island, Cultural References & Finding a Lost City

Published: March 19, 2015, 4:43 p.m.

Tom McCarthy's new experimental novel "Satin Island" celebrates the role of the anthropologist over the novelist; John McPhee's latest essay in The New Yorker questions the extent to which authors should use cultural references in their work; author Meghan Daum discusses a great book she just finished, Bernard Cooper's "My Avant-Garde Education"; Tom Lutz talks about finding a lost city in Honduras and the dilemma that the archaeologists now face.