Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

From 2011: Addict Nation divides the participants in America’s addictions to everything from pills and alcohol to guns and sugar into twelve chapters that start with “The Stuffers: Addicted to Consumption” and ends with “The Sobers: Emotional Sobriety.” Velez-Mitchell and co-author Sandra Mohr tackle addiction by producing a high-tech, graduate-level research report on the subject.

From 2010: On the NBC freshman sitcom hit “Community,” Donald Glover plays “Troy,” a self-involved, former high school football star trying to find a place for himself in a junior college setting where his athletic accomplishments don’t mean much. On the other hand, the pretty young girl in his study group, Annie—played by Alison Brie—thinks Troy can do anything. Anything with her, that is.

From 2010: Okay, fanboys today’s your lucky day—if you don’t mind living vicariously through me. My guest is Laura Vandervoort, one of the most stunning young women with a virtually unpronounceable name since Paulina Porizkova.

From 2011: The Extra 2% is this year’s version of Moneyball, the book about how the Oakland A’s made more from less. It’s a book with a real story, a beginning, middle and end, heroes and goats, and a pretty happy conclusion for any baseball fan but us Rays fans in particular. I hearby cede the title of author of best book about the Tampa Bay baseball franchise to Jonah Keri.

Rolling Stone originally named The MC5 album "Kick Out the Jams" a “ridiculous, overbearing, pretentious album.” Certainly the magazine had second thoughts: years later it named it one of the 500 best ever. And it called Wayne Kramer, my guest today, one of 100 greatest guitarists of all time. This year, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of" Kick Out the Jams," Kramer is back on the road. And the guitarist has written a memoir, "The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, The MC5 & My Life of Impossibilities."

From 2009: Jane Friedman is publisher and editorial director of the Writer's Digest community at F+W Media in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she oversees all facets of the Writer's Digest brand, including Writer's Digest magazine, Writer’s Digest Books, annual market guides, online education, events, and competitions. Her blog, "There Are No Rules," discusses how writers can succeed in an era of change in the writing and publishing industry.

From 2010: Andrea Lin is the host and star of an instructional series of DVDs called “Dance A GoGo.” The latest is the “Dance A GoGo: Sexy Nightclub Workout Series” in which Andrea and some of her beautiful friends demonstrate moves that will not only get attention in the clubs but sure you a good time while working out at home.In addition to the DVD series, Andrea is organizing Dance A GoGo bootcamps at Studio City in Los Angeles and Rancho Cucamonga’s Inland Empire.

From 2011: In another generation, Faith Ford could have been the star of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” She’s got that same TV spunk. But being recognized for nearly a decade of fine work as ditzy Corky Sherwood on the TV news satire “Murphy Brown” worked out pretty well for her as she got to nurture the character all the way from airhead to featherweight.

From 2011: This young woman has one of the richest, most engaging voices I’ve heard in years. She has a striking style, confidence, and delivery. Charlene Kaye, best buddy of "Glee" star Darren Criss, just finished playing multiple dates at the 2011 South By Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, and is working on her second album with her band, The Brilliant Eyes. Want to hear the future of music? Forget American Idol — support Charlene Kaye!

Everybody needs a niche and Elizabeth Fournier has one. She’s America’s friendly, neighborhood mortician. She also has a color. Green. As in, Elizabeth Fournier is America’s green mortician, writing books and spreading the word that funerals and burials need not be expensive, anti-environmental affairs. She recently published her third book, "The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial."