Katie Long

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Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending

Friday, August 10, 2012

Julian Barnes’s novel The Sense of an Ending follows the thoughts of an unreliable narrator in his 60s trying to reconstruct events from his youth. After it won the Man Booker Prize l...

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Aha Moment: Sullivan's Travels

Friday, March 02, 2012

Daniel Eagan knew from a young age that he wanted to pursue a career in film. The movie he credits with setting him on that path, Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels  (1941), also ga...

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This Must Be the Playlist: David Byrne's iPod Picks

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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By Katie Long / Derek John

There is no shortage of 2011 year-end playlists, but few are as trustworthy as what's currently on David Byrne's iPod. The former Talking Heads front man sat down with Kurt Andersen this week to talk about the new Talking Heads: Chronology DVD, a collection of rare ...

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Studio 360 Blog, LHC

Large Hadron Collider Gets Closer to 'God'

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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By Katie Long

The press calls it the "God particle," about to be discovered by a "doomsday machine." Hyperbole aside, this morning at 8am EST, scientists operating the Large Hadron Collider on the Franco-Swiss border announced their biggest finding yet related to the elusive Higgs boson particle. Two independent teams of ...

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Cover of Richard Rhodes' 'Hedy's Folly'

Hedy Lamarr, The Most Beautiful Inventor in the World

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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By Katie Long

Hollywood likes to cast model-type stars as high-level as high level scientists (remember Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist in a James Bond movie?). In this case, it’s true. Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood ...

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Julian Barnes: Writing History

Monday, November 21, 2011

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By Katie Long

Last month Julian Barnes received the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending. In 2006, Kurt Andersen interviewed Barnes as part of the National Book Founda...
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Our Next Redesign: You Decide

Friday, November 18, 2011

Five years ago, Studio 360 redesigned Christmas. We commissioned the design firm Pentagram to come up with a fresh, 21st century concept for the holiday that could be used — and love...

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Listener Cris Martin's tattoo of a matryoshka (Russian nesting doll)

Your Occupational Tattoos

Friday, October 28, 2011

Last week on the show, we heard from people who are so passionate about their careers as scientists and mathematicians that they've tattooed equations and fragments of DNA on their ...

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Cover of Ayn Rand'sThe Fountainhead

When Once Just Isn’t Enough: Rereaders

Friday, October 14, 2011

A couple weeks ago, Kurt Andersen came clean on Twitter and Facebook. He admitted that (with two small exceptions), he’s never read a book or watched a movie more than twice. “I wo...

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Moby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, The Great Gatsby

360 Listener List: What to Reread & Rewatch

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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By Jenny Lawton : Managing Editor, WNYC Studios / Katie Long

A couple weeks ago, Kurt Andersen realized that he’d never read a book or seen a movie more than twice. The reasoning seemed clear: with so many great works (new and classic) to be di...
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Manning Marable, Stephen Greenblatt, and Téa Obreht

National Book Award Nominees Announced

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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By Jenny Lawton : Managing Editor, WNYC Studios / Katie Long

Finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were announced today. The nominees include a first-time novelist and the recently deceased biographer of Malcolm X. Bonus tracks: intervie...
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