360 Staff Pick: Logicomix

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
By Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou
Graphic nonfiction achieves a new level of elegance in a very rarefied subject: the career of Bertrand Russell – mathematician, philosopher, and educator — and his search for the logical foundation of mathematics.  Against the backdrop of two world wars, Russell tries to argue [...]

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Music That Speaks to You

Here’s a Black Friday deal that the big-box retailers can’t beat.  Buy the new album from the up-and-coming indie band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons and you’ll get a personalized song thrown in, for no extra charge.  Just send them a letter with your life story (or a condensed version, perhaps), and they’ll churn out [...]

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Rhymes With Australopithecus

British poet Ruth Padel shares Charles Darwin’s DNA — she’s his great-great granddaughter.  Inspired by the life of her (relatively) early relative, this descendant of the Descent of Man author pays tribute to her forefather in verse to commemorate the 150th anniversary of On The Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth.  [...]

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Original Sin

Kids never do as they’re told.  The lauded novelist Vladimir Nabokov asked that his unfinished manuscript The Original of Laura be burned upon his death.  But lucky for us, his son Dmitri didn’t listen.  This week marks Laura’s inflammatory publication, which means that fans of Nabokov’s will now have to decide whether to respect the [...]

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Don’t just listen… WATCH Studio 360!

We’re counting down… Tonight, Studio 360 is live in the Greene Space, taping a show all about time travel.  We have an all-star line-up of experts: astrophysicist David Goldberg, novelist Connie Willis, monogloguist Mike Daisey, and 28th century pop idol Janelle Monae (a.k.a. Cindy Mayweather).
<<<Live web stream HERE at 7:00pm EST>>>

The radio broadcast to follow [...]

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women

Generally when somebody says to the editor of a radio program “I’m going to get a grant to do long-form multimedia reporting with a poet writing about the working poor,” the editor gets a look on his face.  Poetry and poverty — not the most popular subjects in the rundown.  But when that somebody is [...]

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When Gore Met Amelia

If you’re planning to see “Amelia,” the new Amelia Earhart biopic now in theaters, keep an eye out for recent “Studio 360″ guest Gore Vidal — or at least the actor playing him. The film takes place long before he became notorious for his envelope-pushing novels and on-air political smackdowns with William F. Buckley. [...]

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360 Staff Pick: Honor Still Lost

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
By Heinrich Boll
When I first read this 1974 novel, set in West Germany around the time of the Red Army Faction, it seemed very foreign to me in every sense.  A serious terrorist threat?  Law enforcement overreach to deal with it?  Powerful, sensationalist right-wing media whipping up the panic?  Well, [...]

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Today in Swag

With Halloween fast approaching, the swag coming into the studio this week has taken a spooky turn. We appreciated these vampire teeth, which accompanied The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published…

… and brought out our ghoulish side!

We’ll have some ghoulish stories on the show this week – including instructions [...]

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A Wild Homage

Tomorrow, the much-anticipated film, “Where the Wild Things Are” is coming to theaters. It’s based on the beloved children’s book by Maurice Sendak, whose fantastical illustrations have inspired innumerable artists.
One of those inspired artists is Cory Godbey. Godbey is an illustrator who started the fabulous blog Terrible Yellow Eyes, an homage to Sendak [...]

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