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Title: Fresh Air, Richard Price, March 5, 2008

Author: Terry Gross

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-08

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Richard Price's new novel is Lush Life about the repercussions of a shooting on the Lower East side. Price has also written for HBO's The Wire, which ends a five-year run on Sunday. Price's other best-selling novels include Clockers, about life in the inner city world of drug dealing (which was made into a film), Freedomland, which was inspired by the real-life incident in which a woman alleged a black man carjacked her and took her two children, and Samaritan, about a man who returns to the New Jersey town where he was raised and to teaching, and the bad consequences of his good intentions. Price was also a screenwriter for the notable films Sea of Love, Ransom, and The Color of Money.

Then, Maureen Corrigan reviews World War II Writings, a new collection of stories by legendary journalist A. J. Liebling, published by The Library of Congress. It was edited by Pete Hamill. [Broadcast Date: March 5, 2008]

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Title: Fresh Air, Shalom Auslander and A. J. Jacobs, October 8, 2007

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-07

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Hear writers Shalom Auslander and A. J. Jacobs on this edition of Fresh Air. Auslander is the author of the memoir Foreskin's Lament, about growing up in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox Jewish community and his attempt to break free of it. Tom Perrotta (author of Little Children) describes the book as a "scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir." Auslander has also written for The New Yorker, Esquire, and The New York Times Magazine, and he is the author of the short-story collection Beware of God. A. J. Jacobs is the editor at large of Esquire. His latest year-long experiment resulted in the book The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. He is also is the author of a book, The Know-It-All, about the year he spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Title: Fresh Air, Edwidge Danticat, September 26, 2007

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-07

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Hear Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead, and critic-at-large John Powers on this edition of Fresh Air.

Edwidge Danticat was raised in Haiti by her uncle until the age of 12, when she came to New York to live with her parents who had immigrated to the US She's the author of a number of novels, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, and The Dew Breaker, as well as the short-story collection Krik? Krak!. Danticat has a new memoir about the birth of her daughter and the death of her father and uncle, all in the same year: Brother, I'm Dying.

Then, Kevin Whitehead reviews McCoy Tyner Quartet, featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Jeff "Twain" Watts.

Finally, John Powers has some thoughts on the 40th anniversary edition DVD of the film The Graduate. [Broadcast Date: September 26, 2007]

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Title: Fresh Air, Alan Greenspan, September 18, 2007

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-07

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Hear former chair of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan and book critic Maureen Corrigan on this edition of Fresh Air.

Alan Greenspan has written a new memoir, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World. He headed the Federal Reserve for 18 years, from 1987 to 2006.

Then, Maureen Corrigan reviews Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm, about Gertrude Stein and her long-time companion, Alice B. Toklas. [Broadcast Date: September 18, 2007]

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Title: Fresh Air Archive

Subtitle: Jimmy Carter, June 29, 2007

Author: Terry Gross

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-29-07

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Jimmy Carter has 18 books to his credit, including memoirs and nonfiction, that reflect on his work as a mediator, his life in the White House, his childhood, and his spiritual life. His first book of fiction, The Hornet's Nest, is now out in paperback. He is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. (Original Airdate: 10/21/04) [Broadcast Date: June 29, 2007]

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Title: Fresh Air, Kevin Coster and David Talbot, May 24, 2007

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-07

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Hear writer and editor David Talbot and actor Kevin Costner on this edition of Fresh Air.

David Talbot is the founder of the online journal Salon.com. He's written a new book about John and Robert Kennedy, entitled Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Talbot was editor-in-chief of Salon from 1995 to 2005. Currently, he is chairman of the board of the Salon Media Group.

Then, Kevin Costner, whose new film is Mr. Brooks. He plays a loving family man who is also a serial killer. Costner is both an actor and director. He received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for the film Dances with Wolves. Costner's first big film was The Big Chill. He played the friend who commits suicide and brings the group together. Ironically, all of his speaking scenes were cut from the film, so all we saw of Costner is a shot of his hand peeking out from beneath a sheet. Costner's other films include Field of Dreams, Tin Cup, Waterworld, Bull Durham, and The Upside of Anger. [Broadcast Date: May 24, 2007]

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Title: Fresh Air, Michael Pollan, Sean Altman, and Rob Tannenbaum, May 10, 2007

Author: Terry Gross

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-07

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Michael Pollan's new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, follows industrial food, organic food, and food that consumers procure or hunt for themselves, from the source to the dinner plate. It also examines the importance of corn in all of our food products. Pollan is a Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at University of California at Berkeley. His previous books include The Botany of Desire and A Place of My Own, and he's a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine.

Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum make up the comedy rock group, "What I Like About Jew." The group started out as a joke-y cabaret act that sold out New York venues like the Knitting Factory and Fez. Now they have a new CD called Unorthodox. Altman was a founder and former leader of the vocal group Rockappella. He is a member of the Loser's Lounge series in New York and a contributing producer/performer with Kol Zimra and Voices for Israel. Tannenbaum is music editor of Blender Magazine. His work appears in many other magazines, including Playboy. He also helped John Leguizamo write his Tony-nominated Broadway comedy, "Sexaholic." (Original Airdate: 4/11/2006) [Broadcast Date: May 10, 2007]

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Title: Fresh Air, Paul Auster

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-04

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Author Paul Auster on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is Oracle Night. Auster is the author of 11 novels, three screenplays, five books of poetry, and seven works of nonfiction. His recent works include the best-selling novels The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, and he also edited the NPR National Story Project anthology, I Thought My Father Was God. (Broadcast Date: January 20, 2004)

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Title: Fresh Air, Dennis Lehane, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Crime novelist Dennis Lehane, TV critic Tom Shales and author James Andrew Miller on this 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 abandoned the duo for his book about the affect of an abduction on a group of boys. It's a thriller, Mystic River, and it's been made into a new film directed by Clint Eastwood. Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller are the authors of the book, Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. The book is a history of the late-night comedy mainstay, which first aired on TV in 1975. Shales and Miller interviewed the shows' producers, writers, cast members, and guest hosts, including Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Al Franken, Will Farrell, Tom Hanks, and many more. Shales is the Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic of The Washington Post and a movie critic for NPR's Morning Edition. (Original Broadcast Date: March 14, 2001 and October 8, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Dr. Paul Farmer and Isaac Mizrahi

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

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Dr. Paul Farmer, the subject of a new book, and fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi on this edition of Fresh Air. Farmer is an infectious disease specialist, a medical anthropologist, and a recipient of the MacArthur "genius" grant. He divides his time between Harvard Medical School where he is a professor, the Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston where he is Chairman of the Division of Social Medicine, and Haiti where he founded the medical care organization, Partners in Health. Farmer is the subject of the book Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, by Pulitzer prize winning author Tracy Kidder.

Isaac Mizrahi is part of a new Turner Classic Movie series Style in Motion in which six fashion designers host an evening of classic Hollywood films which influenced their careers. Mizrahi hosts the films The Women (1938), Darling (1965), Roberta (1935), and Blow-Up (1966). (The series runs Monday nights in October. Mizrahi's night is October 13th). (Broadcast Date: September 25, 2003)

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