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Monday-Thursday 6:00-7:00 PM
Terry Gross

Interviews with authors, entertainers, and news makers.

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Podcasts

  • Friday, May 24, 2013 10:44pm
    Two New Stories With A New-Wave Vibe
    The Truffaut borrowings are explicit in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha, while Richard Linklater's Before Midnight takes its cues from Eric Rohmer's gentle but expansive talkfests. In both films, conversation is a centerpiece as characters navigate relationships.
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 10:43pm
    Marcus Samuelsson: On Becoming A Top Chef
    The James Beard award-winning chef was the youngest ever to receive a three-star review from The New York Times. His memoir, Yes, Chef, explains what it takes to be a master chef — and describes his journey from Ethiopia to Sweden to some of America's finest restaurants.
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 10:43pm
    Remembering Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist For The Doors
    The mythology surrounding The Doors generally centers on its lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison is still considered one of rock's tortured poets, but The Doors' sound was based largely on Ray Manzarek's keyboard playing. His are the riffs immortalized in songs like "Riders on the Storm."
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 8:35pm
    Two New Stories With A New-Wave Vibe
    The Truffaut borrowings are explicit in Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha, while Richard Linklater's Before Midnight takes its cues from Eric Rohmer's gentle but expansive talkfests. In both films, conversation is a centerpiece as characters navigate relationships.
  • Friday, May 24, 2013 8:34pm
    Marcus Samuelsson: On Becoming A Top Chef
    The James Beard award-winning chef was the youngest ever to receive a three-star review from The New York Times. His memoir, Yes, Chef, explains what it takes to be a master chef — and describes his journey from Ethiopia to Sweden to some of America's finest restaurants.

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Movie Interviews
10:03 am
Fri August 31, 2012

Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder

Credit Deana Newcomb / Wind Dancer Films
In Bernie, Jack Black plays a local mortician who murders his live-in companion after she won't stop nagging him. The movie is based on a true story.
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Originally published on Fri August 31, 2012 3:16 pm

This interview was originally broadcast on April 23, 2012. Jack Black's Bernie is now out on DVD.

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Performing Arts
11:13 am
Thu August 30, 2012

Audra McDonald: Shaping 'Bess' On Broadway

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Credit Michael J. Lutch / Courtesy of the American Repertory Theater
Audra McDonald plays Bess in the current Broadway production of Porgy and Bess.
Credit Michael Wilson / Courtesy of Nonesuch Records
Audra McDonald.
Credit Michael J. Lutch / Courtesy of the American Repertory Theater
The women of Porgy and Bess dance.
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Originally published on Thu August 30, 2012 12:46 pm

This interview was originally broadcast on May 15, 2012. Audra McDonald plays Bess in the opera Porgy and Bess, which closes on Broadway next month. Porgy and Bess won two Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.

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Performing Arts
11:00 am
Thu August 30, 2012

David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway

Credit Courtesy of the American Repertory Theater
In Porgy and Bess, David Alan Grier plays the drug dealer Sporting Life, a role closely associated with Sammy Davis Jr. and Cab Calloway.
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Originally published on Thu August 30, 2012 11:14 am

This interview was originally broadcast on May 22, 2012. David Alan Grier plays Sporting Life in the opera Porgy and Bess, which closes on Broadway next month. Porgy and Bess won two Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.

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Author Interviews
1:08 pm
Wed August 29, 2012

A Linguist's Serious Take On 'The A-Word'

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Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg says he wants people to take his new book, Ascent of the A-Word, seriously.
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Originally published on Tue September 4, 2012 1:04 pm

Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg wants people to take his new book, Ascent of the A-Word, seriously.

"I'd meet people when I was working on the book, and even academics — they'd say, 'What are you working on?' and they'd giggle. Or they'd say, 'You must have a lot of time on your hands,' " Nunberg tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

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Author Interviews
11:40 am
Wed August 29, 2012

Victor LaValle On Mental Illness, Monsters And Survival

Credit E. Robateu / Random House
Victor LaValle is also the author of Slapboxing with Jesus, The Ecstatic and Big Machine.
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Originally published on Wed August 29, 2012 12:58 pm

In Victor LaValle's new novel, The Devil in Silver, a man is mistakenly committed to a mental hospital where a buffalo-headed monster stalks patients at night.

The plausibility of a monster roaming the hospital's halls made sense, says LaValle, who has a personal connection to the mentally ill.

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