Michael Chabon sings!

Studio 360
Carsickness

Danny Strong joins Studio 360 to talk about how he began his career as an actor, evolved into a writer of movies like “Game Change,” and just made his directorial debut with “Rebel in the Rye,” which is about the circumstances under which J.D. Salinger wrote “The Catcher in the Rye.” The stunning new animated film “Loving Vincent” is a biopic of Van Gogh, meticulously painted to appear as if Van Gogh paintings had come to life. Then, Michael Chabon recalls his college years in Pittsburgh, when a post-punk band called Carsickness fueled his own coming-of-age story. And Bruce Handy, Kurt Andersen, and both writers’ kids sit down in the studio to talk about the enduring power of children’s literature, which Handy writes about in his new book, “Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult.”

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