Scott Blaszak

MTV executive Bill Flanagan charts the rise and fall of the music industry in his rock n’ roll novel Evening’s Empire. As part of the hoopla around the display of Carl Jung’s secret Red Book, celebrities are exploring their personal psyches on stage with an analyst in a series called “The Red Book Diaries.” And […]

Kurt talks with the writer Jennifer Egan about A Visit from the Goon Squad, a novel about the music industry that jumps back and forth in time. The duo that make up Nortec Collective describes how their unique playful sound can only come from Tijuana. And a neuroscientist writes a book of short stories about […]

Love gets messy when a super-fan tries to date Lady Gaga. An American in Cairo explains the role culture has played in the revolution. Kurt Andersen talks with David Lindsay-Abaire about his new Broadway play, “Good People.” And the comedian Patton Oswalt breaks down the universe to its three essential parts: zombies, spaceships, and wastelands.