Famous for his roles in movies like Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Erin Brockovich, and multiple iterations of TV favorite Law & Order, Peter Coyote gives an exclusive chat in The Stand's Rare Book Room on his new memoir, The Rainman's Third Cure: An Unsentimental Education. Drawing on a metaphor from an early Bob Dylan song, the memoir delves into Peter's complicated balance between the competition of success and the transcendental inclusion of love, and how Peter found Zen through poet Gary Snyder.

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