Essays For A Song

Soundcheck | Sep 17, 2010

Music downloads shifted sales of albums to individual songs. Now, writer Chuck Klosterman is testing a similar approach - selling e-essays from his e-books. Today: The bestselling author joins us to talk about his experiment in moving the written word deeper into digital space. Later: A new photography exhibition captures Welsh musicians and more.

Plus: Violinist Hilary Hahn recently had a concerto written for her. She joins us to talk about this Pulitzer Prize-winning piece.

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