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Neil Gaiman
This week in Studio 360, Kurt Andersen and author Neil Gaiman talk about writing fantasy.

Neil Gaiman
Kurt Andersen talks with Neil Gaiman about writing the new film Mirrormask, produced by the Jim Henson Company. Gaiman shares his insights from raising teenage daughters, and describes what it’s like to work in the Henson family home, where old Muppets are put to rest in the laundry room.
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Neil Gaiman Continued
A god walks into a bar, flirts with the tourists, and has a heart attack singing karaoke, leaving his two sons to stumble into a conflict older than civilization. Gaiman explains how his new book Anansi Boys is not really a fantasy novel – it's a comedy inspired by P.G. Wodehouse. We'll hear some of the book, read by British actor and comedian Lenny Henry. And we'll learn how a graphic novelist is like a high-priced escort.
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SPECIAL GUEST
Neil Gaiman
the first feature by director Dave Neil Gaiman is a legend in the comics world for his Sandman series published by DC, about a dysfunctional family of immortals. His fiction includes the bestseller American Gods, Neverwhere (which began as a television series for the BBC), Stardust, and Coraline, his award-winning children's novel. Anansi Boys is his new novel. He wrote the screenplay for Mirromask, the first feature directed by Dave McKean. Born and raised in England, Gaiman now lives near Minneapolis.
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Armando Bayolo
Composer Armando Bayolo had two great epiphanies in his musical life – John Williams' Star Wars score, and a long, dense, Minimalist piece using hammers by Louis Andriessen, the Steve Reich of the Netherlands. Produced by David Krasnow
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Design for the Real World
Superball
Curator Paola Antonelli remembers how the tiny, energetic Superball made havoc in classrooms and workplaces.
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Commentary
Kurt Likes Earl
For the first time in many years, Kurt finds himself laughing out loud at a new network TV sitcom. My Name is Earl manages to balance coarse and offensive. At the same time it's brilliant and funny – something we don't see on broadcast TV anymore.
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