Mallory Kasdan

Kurt talks with Susanna Moore, whose new novel, The Big Girls, is set in a women's prison. There she spins a singular, haunting tale about a woman who has killed her children. Excerpts read by Kaylin Clinton and Mallory Kasdan.

We're all too familiar with junk mail that offers to enlarge body parts or reduce mortgages. Most of us delete these messages right away. Mallory Kasdan finds unexpected art in her pile of unsolicited emails.

We'd tell you what instruments musician Ken Butler plays, except you've never heard of them before. Because Ken Butler builds everything he plays from materials such as shovels, cowboy boots and a chessboard. Produced by Mallory Kasdan.

In the middle of the 19th century, cheap, wild & sexy commercial fiction became a form all its own — and boomed. These books were called “sensation novels.” George Lippard published several sensation novels including one in 1848 called The Bel of Prairie Eden. In this excerpt set in Texas ...

We'd tell you what instruments musician Ken Butler plays, except you've never heard of them before. Because Ken Butler builds everything he plays. Produced by Mallory Kasdan.

Over thirty years ago, New York artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles decided to find out what happened to her own garbage, and she never turned back. Produced by Mallory Kasdan.

The power of the voice can be used to create phenomenal works of art, and it can be used to sell us stuff. The people in this story have coaxed you to buy toothpaste, to join a gym or to trust the news you watch. What are they thinking about ...

We'd tell you what instruments musician Ken Butler plays, except you've never heard of them before. Because Ken Butler builds everything he plays.  Produced by Mallory Kasdan.

A sewing circle that doubles as a congregation looks for God in the details of crochet and embroidery. Produced by Mallory Kasdan.

A strange thing happened when artist Ken Solomon retrieved a long-forgotten fluffy brown wig from his closet...