Susanna Moore remains best known for her 1995 erotic thriller In the Cut, about a writing teacher who descends into a seedy world of murder and sexual violence. Her latest novel, The Life of Objects, is told from the point of view of an Irish girl, Beatrice, who comes to work ...

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.

Novelist Susanna Moore author of My Old Sweetheart, In the Cut, and The Whiteness of Bones, finds inspiration in the music of 1940s Cuban singer Antonio Machin.