Shadows, Breakdown, Mortician

6 segments

Kurt Andersen and artist Kara Walker peer into what artists make in the dark. We take listeners into a pitch-black gallery space with only a flashlight, and the playwright Lanford Wilson, on the verge of a breakdown, creates a masterpiece. Also, the frontman of a death metal band illuminates his shadowy music, and a novelist guides us on a tour of his haunted book.