David Krasnow

Executive Producer, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Studio 360

David Krasnow is the senior editor of PRI's Studio 360.

David began producing stories for Studio 360 in 2001 with a profile of experimental musician Pauline Oliveros. He joined the staff in 2003 after many years in print media as an editor and writer, covering music, design, American history, land use, science, and health care.

Formerly the reviews editor of Artforum, he has written for the Village Voice, Jazz Times, Metropolis, The New York Observer, and The Wire, and remains a contributing editor for Bomb.  He teaches radio writing to print journalists at Mediabistro and has discussed how to pitch features at the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the Public Radio Program Directors conference. 

Among his stories for Studio 360 are features on Andy Warhol’s soup cans, the folk ballad “John Henry,” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner” for the American Icons series.  He was first on air at 17 on his college station, WESU. 

David Byrne and the birth of Talking Heads

A look back at the early days of the seminal band.

David Byrne and the birth of Talking Heads

American Icons: Jimi Hendrix's ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

American Icons: Jimi Hendrix's ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

American Icons: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

American Icons: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Star-Spangled Banner’

Tracy K. Smith explores ‘Life on Mars’

Tracy K. Smith explores ‘Life on Mars’

Ode to Justin Timberlake

Ode to Justin Timberlake
Performer Jacqueline Salamack (L) jokes with an audience member after a performance of "A Klingon Christmas Carol" in Chicago, December 20, 2012.

Why yes, I do speak Klingon

Who creates fictional languages and who bothers to learn them?

Why yes, I do speak Klingon
Gary Marcus, director of New York University’s Center for Language and Music

Gary Marcus: Defining creativity

Creativity is almost always associated with the arts, but Gary Marcus tells us how creativity takes on different forms in all aspects of life.

Gary Marcus: Defining creativity
MRI of the brain

Gary Marcus: Enhancing creativity

Musicians are famous for their wild and often intoxicated lifestyles, but does a lack of inhibition in the brain actually make you a better musician?

Gary Marcus: Enhancing creativity
Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward reflects on Katrina

The author was at the end of her summer break when Hurricane Katrina struck her hometown of Delisle, Mississippi.

Jesmyn Ward reflects on Katrina

Gary Marcus: Enhancing Creativity

Musicians are famous for their wild and often intoxicated lifestyles, but does a lack of inhibition in the brain actually make you a better musician?

Gary Marcus: Enhancing Creativity

The Flame Alphabet

In his novel “The Flame Alphabet,” Ben Marcus imagines what would happen if children’s speech made their parents sick.

The Flame Alphabet

Our Computers, Our Viruses, Our Selves

We’ve been living with computer viruses since the earliest networks. But how similar are they to biological ones?

Our Computers, Our Viruses, Our Selves

Lois Lowry: The End of “The Giver”

Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” was one of the first dystopian YA novels — and one of the most banned. 

Lois Lowry: The End of “The Giver”

Eve Sussman's Algorithmic Noir

The movie “whiteonwhite” has human actors, director, and crew. But its editor is an algorithm that creates a different version of the film each time it plays. 

Eve Sussman's Algorithmic Noir

The Computer As Artist

Creative types tend to think computers will never take their jobs. They haven’t met Brutus.

The Computer As Artist