He's produced albums for Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and Foo Fighters. After decades in the business, Butch Vig says that new technologies are changing the music industry.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Novelist Christopher Miller's debut novel "Sudden Noises from Inanimate Objects" takes the form of liner notes for a box set by a fictional musician.
Doug Gordon profiles Cole’s notes, the Canadian inspiration for America’s CliffsNotes.
Colin Meloy likes to lose himself in music. He’s the songwriter and lead singer of a band called The Decemberists.
Psychiatrist Darold Treffert regards savants as "islands of genius." He talks about a lifetime of studying savant syndrome.
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Elizabeth George, author of the Inspector Lynley mysteries, talks about her new novel that tells the life story of the mixed race boy who's arrested for the fatal mugging of the Inspector's wife, which occurred in the previous novel in the series.
David Gilmour has written a biography of the great British writer Rudyard Kipling. Gilmour tells Anne Strainchamps that Kipling’s range is unrivaled.
Writer Dan Chaon talks about his new book of non-supernatural ghost stories, "Stay Awake."
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