Studio 360 visits the underworld. In the new horror movie, "Jennifer's Body," a high school alpha female is possessed by a man-eating demon; screenwriter Diablo Cody explains why she wrote the story. The novelist James Ellroy imagines political conspiracies and covert crimes in his new novel about the 1960s, Blood’s a Rover. And one of our listeners gets a sad lesson in life from REM’s Automatic for the People.

Kurt Andersen talks with Lynn Nottage, the playwright behind the Pulitzer prize-winning play, "Ruined." Arts critics are forced to get resourceful when their old funding sources dry up. And out in the Mojave Desert, 82-year-old Gene Winfield designs the cars of the future.