Alan Berliner is a filmmaker and an insomniac. He says he does his best work and feels most alive late at night. His new film, Wide Awake, is part-insomnia diary and part-therapy session. It airs this week on HBO. Kurt Andersen drops in on Berliner at his ...

Folk-rocker Michelle Shocked is a kind of a godmother to a young generation of singer-songwriters. For her, sleepless nights are sometimes the only way to write a song -- so she keeps a guitar right beside her bed. Produced by Trey Kay.

Sherman Alexie stays up all night too. The author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and the new novel Flight says it all started when he was a kid when he would stay up waiting for his father to come home. Produced by

Janna Levin is a physicist who spends her days chasing down the mysteries of the universe, like chaos theory and black holes. Her book A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines combines the tricky worlds of mathematical theory and historical fiction. And it just won her the PEN/Robert ...

Paul Francke, who plays bass, is finishing up seminary outside of Washington, DC. Isol, who sings vocals, is a children's book author and illustrator from Buenos Aires. The unlikely pair made Alsace Lorraine's new album Dark One, without ever meeting face to face. This special Studio 360 ...

“Dulce et Decorum” from Alsace Lorraine's Dark One.