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 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni talks about her traditional Indian childhood and the Bengali dream-tellers she met while researching "Queen of Dreams."
Christopher O'Riley chats with Jim Fleming about classical music's image problem among young people and how he makes the music seem cool.
We hear a story from Elna Baker, author of “The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance.”
David Gilmour decided to let his son, Jesse, drop out of school, provided that he agree to watch three movies a week with his father. He talks about this experience.
Daniel Cavicchi spent three years talking to his fellow Bruce Springsteen fans. The result is a book called “Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning among Springsteen Fans.”
Derick Burleson won the Felix Pollack Prize for his collection of poems about Rwanda, called "Ejo."
Bill Hayes is the author of “Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood.” Hayes tells Jim Fleming several nifty facts about the fluid that sustains us all.
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