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Title: Fresh Air, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Jon Favreau

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-09-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and filmmaker Jon Favreau on this edition of Fresh Air. Last year, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovered a manuscript of a novel purportedly written in the 1850s by an African American woman who had been a slave. It is the first known work of its kind and has great historical and literary significance. The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, has just been published. Gates talks about the process of finding, authenticating and publishing the novel. Gates is the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Harvard University. He's published seven books and has received many awards for his work. Film maker Jon Favreau wrote and starred in his films which include the hipster comedy Swingers and Made (which he also directed). In each film he teamed up with fellow actor and friend Vince Vaughn. Recently he also starred in the romantic comedy Love and Sex. His latest project is a new talk show series Dinner For Five which he created and hosts for the Independent Film Channel. (Broadcast Date: April 9, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Barry Manilow

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Singer, songwriter, musician, and arranger Barry Manilow is on this edition of Fresh Air. He made the pop charts over and over again during the 1970s and early 80s with his love ballads like Mandy, Looks Like We Made It, I Write the Songs and Copacabana (At the Copa). Before becoming a singer he was Bette Midler's accompanist and arranger. He has a new album of material Here at the Mayflower, his first pop album since the 1980s. (Broadcast date March 21, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Ruth Reichl and Stephen Greenberg

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-02

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Editor in chief of Gourmet magazine Ruth Reichl and former deputy commissioner of baseball Stephen Greenberg on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Ruth Reichl's is a former restaurant critic for The New York Times and the author of Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table, a memoir of her lifelong passion for food, which was a best seller. She continues her story with the new book Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table.

Attorney Stephen Greenberg discusses his father, legendary baseball player Hank Greenberg, who faced bigotry in the 1930s and '40s as America's first Jewish baseball star. Greenberg played first base and outfield for the Detroit Tigers from 1933-46 (he helped the Tigers win the penant four times) and for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947. The documentary about him, The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, will air on Cinemax this month. (Original broadcast dates: March 14, 2000 and July 29, 1998)

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Title: Fresh Air, Ravi Shankar, Vince Vaughn, Gene Hackman

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Musician Ravi Shankar, actors Vince Vaughn and Gene Hackman on this edition of Fresh Air. Today, we learned that former Beatle George Harrison has died. Ravi Shankar, the world's leading sitar player. In 1999 he published his autobiography, Ravi Shankar: Raga Mala. The book was edited and introduced by his friend George Harrison. He'll discuss his relationship with Harrison and how Harrison helped introduce the sitar to western audiences. Actor Vince Vaughn teamed up again with Swingers costar John Favreau in the movie, Made. The movie, written and directed by Favreau, follows two aspiring boxers who concoct a money-laundering scheme. It's just come out on video and DVD. Vaughn has appeared in several movies including Swingers, The Lost World, the remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and The Cell. Actor Gene Hackman is the star of the films Bonnie and Clyde, The French Connection, The Conversation, and Unforgiven. He's now starring in two films, with a third about to come out: Heist, Behind Enemy Lines and The Royal Tannenbaums which will be released December 14th. (Original Broadcast Dates: November 17, 1999, July 16, 2001, and November 15, 1999.

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Title: Fresh Air, Karen Armstrong

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Religion scholar Karen Armstrong on Islamic fundamentalism on this edition of Fresh Air. She's the author of the best selling books The Battle for God, Jerusalem, and The History of God. She's also the author of Islam: A Short History. (Broadcast Date: October 17, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Jonathan Franzen

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Novelist Jonathan Franzen on this edition of Fresh Air. His critically acclaimed new novel The Corrections is a saga about two generations of an American family, the parents and their children, and the family's response to the illness of the father. Fellow novelist Don DeLillo says, "Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture. And he has done it with a sympathy and expansiveness." (Broadcast Date: October 15, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Sebastian Junger

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Abridged

Length: 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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On this edition of Fresh Air host Terry Gross speaks with journalist Sebastian Junger. Last year he traveled toAfghanistan to profile Ahmad Shah Massoud, (known as the Lion ofPanjshir), the legendary leader of the guerrilla war against the Soviets,who had been fighting the Taliban. Massoud was assassinated by Osama binLaden's associates two days before the attack on the World Trade Center.

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Title: Fresh Air, Dennis Lehane and Gina Gallo

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-02-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Crime novelist Dennis Lehane and former Chicago policewoman Gina Gallo on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Dennis Lehane's written five novels featuring the working-class Boston private detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. They include A Drink Before the War, Darkness Take My Hand, Sacred, Gone, Baby, Gone, and Prayers for Rain. Lehane abandons the duo for his new book about the effect of an abduction on a group of boys. It's a thriller called Mystic River. A critic with The New York Times writes of the book, "This one is terrific: soulful, atmospheric, suspenseful, and propelled by deep, wrenching emotions."

While she was part of the Chicago police force, Gina Gallo also wrote about her work in columns for NYCop online magazine and Blue Murders online magazine. They were collected in the book Crime Scenes. She has a new memoir, Armed & Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman. (Original Broadcast Date: March 14, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, Steve Earle

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Singer-songwriter Steve Earle on this edition Steve Earle. He's released ten critically acclaimed albums; his latest CD is called Transcendental Blues. He's just published his first book, a collection of short stories called Doghouse Roses. Earle is also politically active. He currently serves as a board member of the Journey of Hope and is affiliated with both the Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty and the Abolitionist Action Committee. (Broadcast Date: June 26, 2001)

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Title: Fresh Air, David McCullough and Russ Parsons

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 05-22-01

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Historian David McCullough and LA Times food editor Russ Parsons on this edition of Fresh Air McCullough is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Truman. His new book is the biography of founding father and second President of the United States. The book is John Adams. Food Editor for The Los Angeles Times, Russ Parsons, examines the science of cooking in his new book, How to Read a French Fry: and other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science.

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