COVER STORY
Smell
Kurt Andersen and the writer Chandler Burr explore the allure and mystery that smell has for us.  Burr believes that we should build museums for the nose.

Demeter
Perfumers generally design complicated scents to stimulate a fantasy or a mood, not to match any one particular thing. But one small fragrance company in New York called Demeter takes a different approach.  Demeter bottles the smell of celery, or of a gin and tonic, or of snow. Sarah Lilley went to find out what isolating smells like these does for us.
Go to the official website for Demeter
View list of Demeter scents currently available

Scent of a Painting
Keith Miller is a painter in Brooklyn . He says it's quite easy for artists to get wrapped up in the romance of how their materials smell, from the buttery oil paint to the sting of turpentine. Produced by Michele Siegel.
Go to Keith Miller's website

Death in Venice
Smells can be hard to describe, but a good writer can transport readers pulling them by the nose.  Adam Haslett, author of the short story collection "You Are Not a Stranger Here,” admires Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice " for its stench. Everything in the story, he says, is "overripe." Produced Jonathan Mitchell.
Learn more about Thomas Mann and Death in Venice

Sonic Smells
We hear how smell and sound go together. Jamie O'Shea is an artist and inventor of the olfactograph, a mechanism designed to capture and record scents, like that of a campfire or an indoor pool.  In O'Shea's installations, he often pairs the olfactograph with audio recordings of the places they were captured.  It's multimedia of a new kind. Produced by Trent Wolbe.
Go to Jamie O'Shea's website
Go to a page on binaural recordings

SPECIAL GUEST
Chandler Burr
Chandler Burr is the author of The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses . He is also the author of A Separate Creation , on how biology creates human sexual orientation. Burr has written for Fast Company, Fortune, the New York Times Magazine, and US News & World Report.
Go to Chandler Burr's website

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Ziegfeld Girl
Doris Eaton is over 100 years old and she's about to have her Broadway comeback.  Eaton will perform in New York next week for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on the same stage where she made her debut 80-odd years ago as a Ziegfeld Follies dancer. Sara Fishko talked to Doris Eaton in the offices of the Ziegfeld Club.
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View Doris Eaton Travis’ book “The Day We Danced”
Go to a website on the Ziegfeld Follies

Alpendub
Yodelling with a dub beat. Dub music is a worldwide style (developed in Jamaica) of futzing with the bass and drum tracks of songs, and adding thick production effects to transform those songs. Robert Cummings, a Canadian drummer living in Berlin, has started applying dub ideas to folk music from the Bavarian Alps. He and his band call the project "Alpendub." Produced by Monika Mueller.
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