Fresh Air, Jeffrey Blitz and Elyn Saks, August 7, 2007

By: Terry Gross

Narrated by: Terry Gross

Hear filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz and law professor Elyn Saks on this edition of Fresh Air.

Jeffrey Blitz wrote and directed the new film Rocket Science. It's a partly autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a teenage boy who joins the high-school debate team. Blitz won the Dramatic Directing Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed the 2002 Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound, and he has directed several episodes of the hit NBC television series The Office.

Then, Elyn Saks, the associate dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her new book is The Center Cannot Hold, a memoir of her struggle with schizophrenia. Saks was eight when she was diagnosed with the condition. She went on to academic excellence, attending Yale Law School and Oxford University. Saks also teaches at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Law at the Keck School of Medicine at USC and is an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. [Broadcast Date: August 7, 2007]

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