Staff Picks
Here's where you can check out some of the books, music, movies, and other stuff you've heard about on the show — along with picks from host Kurt Andersen and the culturally obsessive staff of Studio 360. And each purchase made at Amazon helps support Studio 360. Thanks and happy shopping!
Por Gitaro: Lou HarrisonThe Consolations of PhilosophyTijuana Sound Machine
Por Gitaro: Lou Harrison
$17.98
Lou Harrison, the quintessential California composer, experimented throughout his life with nonstandard tunings and alternativ...
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain De Botton
$11.16
Suffering from broken heart? An empty wallet? Philosophers are standing by. Accessible, humorous, and enlightening, de Botton ...
Tijuana Sound Machine
by Nortec CollectivePresents: Bostich + Fussible
$12.98
The quartet Nortec Collective makes rocking electronic Mexican dance tracks -- you may have already heard their music in comme...
Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of SoulThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThe Girl on the Fridge: Stories
Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the G...
by Aretha Franklin
$14.99
Outtakes have a way of making fans feel at home. Mics get adjusted, technicalities are smoothed out ("Are we recording this, ...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
$16.47
Oscar lives in suburban New Jersey, a son of Dominican immigrants, a “love-sick-ghetto-nerd” who finds his solace in sci-fi. ...
The Girl on the Fridge: Stories
by Etgar Keret
$8.15
What if Kafka and O. Henry hung out at a cafe in Tel Aviv? Keret crafts tiny jewel-box stories about contemporary life in Isra...
Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas)Zathura (Special Edition)Could We Survive (Dig)
Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Soren Kierkegaard
$8.00
I never did read Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. Or Plato’s Symposium, or Sun-Tzu’s Art of War. But almost-20 years after ...
Zathura (Special Edition)
$8.49
I ride the Greyhound a couple of weekends a month, and I dread the in-flight (in-ride?) movies -- mostly straight-to-DVD seque...
Could We Survive (Dig)
by Joseph Arthur
$6.25
Brooklyn indie rocker (and painter) Joseph Arthur returns to the sweeping instrumentals and accessible songwriting of his brea...
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