Dreams have always provided rich material for artists, and interpreting dreams can be as fun as interpreting art. This week in Studio 360 Kurt Andersen and the novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni look at artists who use their sleeping hours to gather raw material
Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni is the author of The Queen of Dreams, about a dream interpreter and her daughter, Arranged Marriage, Mistress of Spices, and Leaving Yuba City. Originally from Calcutta, she teaches at the University of Houston.
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