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Title: Studio 360: Higdon, Pakistani Art, Allende

Author: Kurt Andersen

Format: Original Recording

Length: 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-10

Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Jennifer Higdon recently won the Pulitzer Prize for her musical compositions, yet she didn't pick up a musical instrument - a pawn-shop flute her mother brought home - until she was fifteen. Higdon tells Kurt that her childhood home was more steeped in the Beatles than in Beethoven.

Next, in the MFA program at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, artist Komail Aijazuddin and his friend from Lahore, Salman Toor, have done something they've never seen in Pakistan. They use the techniques from Western art to paint Islamic stories and Pakistani subjects. Produced by Hammad Ahmed.

Then, no one would say that a woman can't be a writer. But when the Chilean-born novelist Isabel Allende was growing up, "writer" was not on the career menu. Kurt asks Allende about the path that led her to write fiction. Her newest novel, Island Beneath the Sea, is out now.

Finally, to make a convincing zombie, it's all in the pacing. George Romero invented the modern zombie with his 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead, and he still likes them old-fashioned - slow-moving but hard to stop. But Ruben Fleischer, director of the 2009 hit Zombieland, is all for speeding up the undead. Romero's newest film, Survival of the Dead, comes out later this month. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.. [Broadcast Date: May 8, 2010]