Kurt talks with Susanna Moore, whose new novel, The Big Girls, is set in a women's prison. There she spins a singular, haunting tale about a woman who has killed her children. Excerpts read by Kaylin Clinton and Mallory Kasdan.

Richard Serra began working with steel as a teenager, on a summer job in a steel mill. Next week in New York, the Museum of Modern Art will unveil a giant retrospective of his career as one of America’s greatest sculptors. Serra’s recent pieces are massive, 12-foot-tall ...

Jeremy Kinney of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum explains how the Wright brothers’ wooden propeller -– designed using the world’s first wind tunnel -- made the dream of defying gravity come true. Produced by Dennis Nishi.

By day, Dori Hadar works as a criminal investigator. But he moonlights as a DJ and prowls for interesting LPs. Sifting through crates of old soul and funk, he found a box of records that mystified him. The sleeves were painted by hand – and the “records” ...

Mingering Mike and Dori Hadar describe the funkiest Kung-Fu movie soundtrack never made -- and the more serious album "The Drug Store."

Brainy, whimsical Laura Veirs sings about meteors, birds and bugs, and the occasional mermaid. Storms and natural destruction also find their way into her lyrics. Kurt talks with Veirs and she performs with her band, Saltbreakers, live in the studio.

Laura Veirs and Saltbreakers perform "Nightingale" in Studio 360