Steve Earle

Kurt Andersen and musician Steve Earle explore the powerful connections between art and prison. We look at the musical legacy of the Attica Prison uprising, hear about a California prison built underground to accommodate a landmark, and meet novelist Eddie Bunker, an ex-con who mines his material from two decades of incarceration. Also, we see […]

Art gets twenty to life: host Kurt Andersen and musician Steve Earle explore the powerful connections between art and prison. We hear music that grew out of the Attica Prison uprising 30 years ago. The novelist Eddie Bunker writes about his two decades in lockup. And a controversial Mexican road movie hits American screens.

Kurt Andersen and novelist Jhumpa Lahiri explore how letters feed our creativity. A novel made up of letters sparks a suicide wave in 18th century Germany. We get a peek at the inner workings of a Hollywood mogul in the outrageous memos dictated by David O. Selznick, who produced Gone with the Wind. And Kurt […]

Multiple personalities. In a program recorded live at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Tony Award-winning performer Sarah Jones transforms herself into a dizzying range of characters — from a Jewish grandmother to a young male rapper. Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, gives some free analysis to audience members. And country […]

This week in Studio 360, multiple personalities. In a program recorded last July at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Tony Award-winning performer Sarah Jones joins Kurt Andersen on stage, and transforms herself into a dizzying range of characters — from a Jewish grandmother to a teenaged rapper. Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of […]

In a program recorded live at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Tony Award-winning performer Sarah Jones transforms herself into a dizzying array of characters — from a Jewish grandmother to a young male rapper. Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, gives some free analysis to audience members. And country rocker Steve […]