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

Interviews with authors, entertainers, and news makers.

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  • Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:08pm
    Cécile McLorin Salvant: Making Old Songs New Again
    The 23-year-old jazz phenom's debut album showcases her takes on vintage jazz and blues numbers by Bessie Smith, Fats Waller and others. You can trace some of her effects back to jazz greats like Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln.
  • Tuesday, June 18, 2013 9:08pm
    Samberg, Taccone And Schaffer: Three's Not A Lonely Island
    As the brains behind the hip-hop parody group responsible for digital shorts like "D--- in a Box," Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer have produced some of the funniest Saturday Night Live material in recent memory. Here, they talk about comedy, Yo! MTV Raps and adolescence.
  • Monday, June 17, 2013 9:02pm
    In 'TransAtlantic,' The Flight Is Almost Too Smooth
    Colum McCann won the National Book Award for his 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin, about a high-wire artist. Critic Maureen Corrigan says McCann's new novel, TransAtlantic, also has its head in the clouds.
  • Monday, June 17, 2013 9:02pm
    WWII 'Deserters': Stories Of Men Who Left The Front Lines
    In his new book, journalist Charles Glass explores the little-known history of thousands of American and British soldiers who deserted during World War II. Glass describes how the strain of war can push a soldier to the breaking point — and how the line between courage and cowardice is never simple.
  • Saturday, June 15, 2013 9:06pm
    Fresh Air Weekend: Rogen, Goldberg, '20 Feet From Stardom' And 'Much Ado'
    Writing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg met as adolescents. Their new project is the disaster-movie spoof This Is the End. A new documentary profiles backup singers whose voices you know but whose names you probably don't. Joss Whedon's new production of Shakespeare's classic is a delight.

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Interviews
1:20 pm
Thu September 6, 2012

Advocate Fights 'Ambient Dispair' In Assisted Living

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Most residents in assisted living facilities are in their 80s and 90s and arrive after a traumatic event, according to Martin Bayne, who writes about long-term care reform.
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Martin Bayne was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's at 53. He now publishes a literary journal called The Feathered Flounder, featuring writers in their 60s and older.
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Originally published on Fri September 7, 2012 11:31 am

Martin Bayne entered an assisted living facility at 53 after he was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease. The disease affected his nerves so severely, it was impossible for him to take a shower and get dressed by himself.

"When I was in my 40s, I was physically fit and very active," Bayne tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "And to have to give all that up and stay in a wheelchair now and be helped by so many people to do the simplest of things — it takes a little getting used to."

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Music Reviews
11:14 am
Thu September 6, 2012

Harmony, Teenagers And 'The Complete Story Of Doo-Wop'

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Vocal groups like The Ink Spots went on for decades, often without a single member of the original group appearing with them.
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Economy
2:39 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Journalist Evaluates Obama, Romney Economic Plans

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David Leonhardt, the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize last year for his columns about the economy.
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Originally published on Wed September 5, 2012 4:39 pm

On Monday, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a campaign rally audience in North Carolina that "the president can say a lot of things, but he can't tell you you are better off." Later that day in Detroit, Vice President Joe Biden responded "America is better off today than they left us."

New York Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt argues that both Ryan and Biden are right: It's partly semantics.

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Book Reviews
2:37 pm
Wed September 5, 2012

Was Zadie Smith's Novel 'NW' Worth The Wait?

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British author Zadie Smith in 2005.
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Zadie Smith wrote her last novel On Beauty seven years ago — a long time in the anxious world of publishing. Her new novel NW was released in the U.S. on Monday. Critic Maureen Corrigan asks: Was it worth the wait?

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Author Interviews
1:15 pm
Tue September 4, 2012

Mickey Edwards On Democracy's 'Cancer'

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Mickey Edwards served as a Republican congressman for Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District from 1977 to 1993.
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Originally published on Tue September 4, 2012 1:48 pm

In his 16 years in Congress, Republican Mickey Edwards came to a strong conclusion: Political parties are the "cancer at the heart of our democracy," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

In his new book, The Parties Versus the People, the former Republican congressman from Oklahoma details how party leaders have too much control over who runs for office, what bills make it to the floor and how lawmakers vote.

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