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Title: Fresh Air, Hope Davis

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Actress Hope Davis on this edition of Fresh Air. She most recently she played the daughter of Jack Nicholson in the movie About Schmidt. Her other roles include Mumford, Next Stop Wonderland, Flatliners, and her first major role Daytrippers. Davis is starring in the new film American Splendor which took the 2003 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize. She's also starring in The Secret Lives of Dentists. (Broadcast Date: August 7, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Leslie Esptein

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Writer Leslie Esptein on this edition of Fresh Air. His father and uncle were the scriptwriting team responsible for Arsenic and Old Lace, Casablanca, and many other Hollywood classics. Epstein grew up in a glamorous and troubled household. His new book, San Remo Drive, is described as a novel from memory, and it's based on his own childhood. Epstein directs the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, and is the author of eight other novels, including King of the Jews and Pandaemonium. (Broadcast Date: July 17, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Youth Portraits

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-07-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Host Terry Gross talks with people involved with "Youth Portraits," a radio skills training program for ex-offenders released from Riker's Island prison in New York City on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Riker's Island is the biggest jail in North America. "Youth Portraits" is a joint project of Friends of the Island Academy and NPR's "Sound Portraits." First, we hear from Andre Vaughn, a 21-year-old ex-offender who was released from Riker's and became involved with the "Youth Portraits" program. He was caught stealing at the age of 17 and subsequently served three sentences. He now works for Friends of the Island Academy at an outreach program in a Bronx high school. Through "Youth Portraits," Andre was one of five young people who spent eight months working with Sound Portraits to create audio documentaries of their lives. For information, go to www.youthportraits.org and www.soundportraits.org. Terry Gross also speaks with Clinton Lacy, a longtime program director of Friends of the Island Academy. FOIA was founded in 1989 by the first principal of the high school on Riker's Island. The program is designed to break the cycle of return to Riker's by providing education and counseling. Each year, FOIA works with 350 young people. (Original Broadcast Date: February 11, 2002)

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Title: Fresh Air, Musicians Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collinwood and Novelist Scott Spenser

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collinwood from the band "Fountains of Wayne" and novelist Scott Spenser are on this edition of Fresh Air. Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collinwood are co-founders of "Fountains of Wayne". Their new album Welcome Interstate Managers has just been released. Anchored by the song writing team of Chris and Adam , the New York-based band released its debut album Radiation Vibe in late 1996. Scott Spenser's newest book is A Ship Made of Paper, and it's received critical acclaim. It's just out in paperback. Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, describes Spencer as a brilliant storyteller. Spencer is the author of seven previous novels, including Endless Love which sold over 2 million copies. He's also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times and The New Yorker. (Original Broadcast Date: June 10, 1999 and June 20, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Marijane Meaker

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-19-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Writer Marijane Meaker on this edition of Fresh Air. Her new book is about her two-year affair with the great writer Patricia Highsmith. The two met in the 1950s at a Greenwich Village lesbian bar. Both were writing lesbian pulp novels under pseudonyms. Meaker wrote Spring Fire (1952) under the pen name Vin Packer. It sold 1.5 million copies. She also wrote under the name Ann Aldrich. Meaker writes young adult novels under the name M.E. Kerr. Highsmith is known for her classic novels Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. (Broadcast Date: June 19, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Chris Cooper

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-19-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Actor Chris Cooper on this edition of Fresh Air. He won an Academy Award for his performance as John Laroche in the film Adaptation. His latest project is the HBO film My House in Umbria, starring Maggie Smith. It debuts May 25, 2003. Cooper is also in the soon-to-be-released Seabiscuit, and he had roles in American Beauty, The Bourne Identity, and The Horse Whisperer. (Broadcast Date: May 19, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Dr. Morton Rostrup and Matthew Shipp

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp is part of the free-jazz movement in New York City (along with saxophonist David S. Ware, bassist William Parker and violinist Mat Maneri). One of his influences has been avante-garde pianist Cecil Taylor and Shipp's style has been described as "a distinctive combination of Mr. Taylor's percussive attack and Chopin's languid rubatos." His two new albums in the series are Equilibrium and Antipop Consortium. (Broadcast Date: May 1, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, John Brady Kiesling

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Former U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling on this edition of Fresh Air. In February, he made headlines when he publicly resigned in protest over the war in Iraq. At the time he was Political Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Kiesling's career as a Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. Department of State began in April 1983. His postings included Morocco, Armenia, Israel and Greece. In 1994, Kiesling was one of a group of foreign service professionals presented with the Rivkin Award, given by the American Foreign Service Association for constructive dissent. Kiesling was also a member of the group of State Department officials that pushed for intervention in Bosnia. (Broadcast Date: April 24, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Jonathan Schell

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-23-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

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Author Jonathan Schell on this edition of Fresh Air. In his new book, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People he rethinks the relationship between war and political power. He writes that military power is not as effective as it once was, and that a more useful approach is one of cooperation with other nations. As you may imagine, Schell was against the war in Iraq. Schell is also the author of the 1982 classic The Fate of the Earth (about the possibility of Nuclear holocaust). He's also written for The Nation, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and The Atlantic. (Broadcast Date: April 23, 2003)

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Title: Fresh Air, Charles Sennott

Author: Terry Gross

Narrator: Terry Gross

Format: Original Recording

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-17-03

Publisher: WHYY-FM

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

Boston Globe Foreign correspondent Charles Sennott on this edition of Fresh Air. Charles Sennott was recently in Northern Iraq where he traveled independently with a group of journalists. He was in Kirkuk when Allied forces took the city from Baathist control. In Afghanistan, in 2001 Sennott traveled with the Northern Alliance. He is also the author of the new book, The Body and The Blood: The Holy Land's Christians At the Turn of a New Millennium. Sennott was the Globe's Middle East bureau chief. (Broadcast Date: April 17, 2003)

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