The number one New York Times best-selling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion).  A...

Devolution

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. Match wits with Lemony Snicket to solve 13 mini-myster...

File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents

This audio is like an informal writing clinic, as you listen to these writers talk about their lives, experiences and, of course, their writing. While you are listening, Terry Gross draws out from these great writers the answers to your questions, ju...

Writers Speak

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, offers some of the most intelligent interviews, reviews, and commentary heard on radio. Terry Gross has been called by The Los Angeles Times, "One...

Fresh Air

Hear religion scholar Bart D. Ehrman on this edition of Fresh Air. Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His new book is God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer. He is t...

Fresh Air, Bart D. Ehrman, February 19, 2008

Hear authors David and Nic Sheff, and critic at large John Powers, on this edition of Fresh Air.  David Sheff and his son, Nic, have both written memoirs. David's new book is called Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction. Nic's...

Fresh Air, David Sheff and Nic Sheff, February 26, 2008

A compilation of eleven Fresh Air celebrity interviews, with host Terry Gross. Interviewed are:Robin Williams (2006)Dave Chappelle (2004)Stephen Colbert (2005)David Cronenberg (2005)Thelma Schoonmaker (2005)George Clooney (2005)Billy Bob Thornton (2002)Jodie Foster (2002)CCH Pounder (2006)Lisa Kudrow (2003)Tim Curry (2005)

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week nearly two million people tune in to the show's intimate conversations broadcast to over...

Religion scholar Bart D. Ehrman on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His new book, Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, chronicles the ...

Fresh Air, Bart D. Ehrman

One of the founders of Apple Computers, Steven Jobs, talks about the future of computer technology on this edition of Fresh Air. Jobs led the development of the Macintosh computer and in 1985 he founded NeXT Computer. NeXT's mission is to develop cus...

Fresh Air Archive: Steven Jobs

Writer David Sedaris on this edition of Fresh Air. Sedaris is best known for his contributing work with Public Radio's This American Life. He's written three books of essays, Barrel Fever, Naked, and his latest Me Talk Pretty One Day. (Broadcast Date: June 1, 2000)

Fresh Air, David Sedaris

Writer Stephen King on this edition of Fresh Air. King has just received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at this year's National Book Award ceremony. Author of several best sellers, he is credited with ushering in a whole new era of horror with his first novel, Carrie, published in 1974. His newest novel is Wolves of the Calla: Dark Tower V. (Original Broadcast Dates: July 22, 1992 and October 10, 2000) 

Fresh Air, Stephen King

Having trouble keeping up on the summer blockbusters? Audible presents a special collection of Fresh Air interviews with the people starring in and behind some of this summer's biggest movies. Actors Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, and Nicolas Cage talk ab...

Fresh Air's Summer Flicks 2002

Audible presents a special collection of Fresh Air interviews related to the Mideast Crisis. You will hear from journalists Christopher Dickey of Newsweek, Jeffrey Goldberg of The New Yorker, James Bennett of The New York Times, Palestinian lawyer Raja Shehadeh, Israeli correspondent Yossi Klein Halevi, father and daughter Laura and David Blumenthal, Israeli journalist David Horovitz, and Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab.

Fresh Air: Mideast Crisis

British comedian, stand-up performer, and actor Eddie Izzard on this edition of Fresh Air. Izzard is currently selling out venues in the U.S. and Canada with his new stand-up show Circle. He has won over fans with his quirky comedy and his cross-dres...

Fresh Air, Eddie Izzard

Hear singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow, and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Sheryl Crow performs in the studio solo, and with her band. Her new album, Detours, is her sixth studio album. It's also the most politically and ...

Fresh Air, Sheryl Crow, February 5, 2008

Religious scholar Elaine Pagels talks about the Gospel of Thomas and Middle East energy expert Youssef M. Ibrahim on this edition of Fresh Air. Elaine Pagels latest book, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, is about a religious text that is l...

Fresh Air, Elaine Pagels and Youssef M. Ibrahim

Singapore's first Prime Minister and its current Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew and journalist Stan Sesser on this edition of Fresh Air. A very controversial figure, Lee Kuan Yew formed the People's Action Party and won the first Singapore general elec...

Fresh Air, Lee Kuan Yew and Stan Sesser

Economist Paul Krugman on this edition of Fresh Air. He's collected the last three years of his New York Times Op-ed columns in the new book, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. In the preface he writes that the book is "a chroni...

Fresh Air, Paul Krugman

In this edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross speaks with Michael Pollan, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. To learn more about the meat industry in the US he bought a calf, and then followed the process from fattening it to sla...

Fresh Air, Michael Pollan

British actor Colin Firth on this edition of Fresh Air. Firth is co-starring in the new romantic comedy/holiday feel-good film, Love Actually. Firth is probably best known for his role as Mr. Darcy in the BBC/A&E production of Pride and Prejudice. Th...

Fresh Air, Colin Firth

Son of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jay Bakker and remembering code breaker Leo Marks on this edition of Fresh Air. In 1989 Jay Bakker's father, Jimmy, was convicted of defrauding his followers at the Praise The Lord ministry, and sent t...

Fresh Air, Jay Bakker and Leo Marks

Former presidential hopeful, Senator Bob Dole on this edition of Fresh Air. Bob Dole is the best selling author of Great Political Wit. His new book, called Great Presidential Wit (I Wish I was in the Book), is a collection of funny anecdotes and quo...

Fresh Air, Bob Dole

Hear the late writer and editor William Maxwell, classical-music critic Lloyd Schwartz, and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air.In honor of the centennial of William Maxwell's birth, and his contribution to American writing, the ...

Fresh Air, William Maxwell, January 25, 2008

The host and creator of This American Life Ira Glass on this edition of Fresh Air. His show can be heard on 350 public radio stations nationwide. Glass will talk about how he came to develop the style that defines the show and you'll hear some classic This American Life moments. There's a new double CD of the best shows called Lies, Sissies, & Fiascoes. (Broadcast Date: May 27, 1999)

Fresh Air, Ira Glass

Former Beatle Paul McCartney on this edition of Fresh Air. His song lyrics include "When I'm Sixty-Four," "Yesterday," "Fool on the Hill," "Paperback writer" and many more. They are collected along with his poems in a recent volume, Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics 1965-1999. His latest album is called Driving Rain. (Broadcast Date: January 18, 2002)

Fresh Air, Paul McCartney

Comedian and political commentator Al Franken on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Franken recently made headlines when the Fox News Channel tried to sue him over...

Fresh Air, Al Franken

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong on this edition of Fresh Air. The best-selling author of The History of God and The Battle for God, has a new book, Budda, about the life of Sidhatta Gotam. From North India, Sidhatta Gotama renounced normal life, lea...

Fresh Air, Karen Armstrong

Political satirist Bill Maher on this edition of Fresh Air. He's just published When you ride ALONE you ride with bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism. It's a coffee table book of post 9/11 political ...

Fresh Air, Bill Maher

Hear shock-rock icon Alice Cooper on this edition of Fresh Air.  During his heyday in the early 1970s, Alice Cooper appeared on stage dressed like a ghoul, with a gaunt face and mascara streaked eyes, and performed cartoonish, violent stunts. His hit...

Fresh Air, Alice Cooper, May 17, 2007

Humorist Fran Lebowitz and writer Anne Lamott on this archive edition of Fresh Air. The Washington Post called Fran Lebowitz "The funniest woman in America." Humorist Lebowitz has come out with her first children's book, Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet Th...

Fresh Air, Fran Lebowitz and Anne Lamott

Hear Simpsons executive producer and writer Al Jean, and actress Nancy Cartwright, on this edition of Fresh Air.  Al Jean has been with the TV show The Simpsons since it began, first as a writer, then as executive producer. He has said the new Simpso...

Fresh Air, The Simpsons Special, July 26, 2007

NPR's senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels and her husband Vint Lawrence on this edition of Fresh Air. She was one of few journalists still in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq. Often she reported from her room at the Palestine Hotel, as bombs...

Fresh Air, Anne Garrels

Former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ron Suskind on this edition of Fresh Air. The two have collaborated on the new book, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill....

Fresh Air, Paul O'Neill and Ron Suskind

Non-proliferation expert Joseph Cirincione and The Weekly Standard's William Kristol on this edition of Fresh Air. He specializes in defense and proliferation issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is senior associate and direct...

Fresh Air, Joseph Cirincione and William Kristol

Hear actor Sidney Poitier, TV critic David Bianculli, and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Sidney Poitier was the leading African-American actor of his generation. His Academy Award-winning classic film In the Heat of the Nig...

Fresh Air, Sidney Poitier, January 18, 2008

Linguist John McWhorter and photographer Joel Meyerowitz on this editin of Fresh Air. John McWhorter's newest book is called The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language. He has written on Ebonics, language and African Americans, and the origins...

Fresh Air, John McWhorter and Joel Meyerowitz

Hear Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, on this edition of Fresh Air. His show parodies, and is modeled after, The O'Reilly Factor. In fact, in a New Yorker review, Nancy Franklin writes, "Colbert resembles nobody more than...

Actor/comedian/screenwriter/playwright and novelist Steve Martin on this edition of Fresh Air. His new novel The Pleasure of My Company follows his best selling novella Shopgirl (which he is making into a new film). He wrote the play Picasso at The Lapin Agile and is the author of a collection of short stories, Cruel Shoes. Martin's screenwriting credits include L.A. Story, and Roxanne.

Fresh Air, Steve Martin

Actress Cherry Jones and hip hop forefather Grand Master Flash on this edition of Fresh Air. Cherry Jones is currently appearing in Lysistrata at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia. Jones is a founding member of the American Repertory Theatre a...

Fresh Air, Cherry Jones and Grand Master Flash

Novelist Stephen King on this edition of Fresh Air. In 1999, the prolific and popular horror writer experienced something that could have come out of one of his books: he was struck by a car while walking along a rural road in Maine and nearly killed...

Computer programmer Linus Torvalds on this edition of Fresh Air. He is the creator of Linux, a computer operating system intended to improve upon Unix. When Torvalds wrote the original code in 1991, he sent it out on the Internet to allow anyone to m...

Fresh Air, Linus Torvalds

Singer Emmylou Harris and horror writer Peter Straub on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Emmylou Harris has been making records for over 30 years with music that transcends the country-genre she started with, encompassing folk, rock, and pop. After...

Fresh Air, Emmylou Harris and Peter Straub

Actress, writer, comedians Ellen Degeneres and Andy Richter on this edition of Fresh Air. Ellen Degeneres will soon begin a comedy tour. Her five-year sit-com Ellen won an Emmy for her much anticipated coming-out episode. She and her character came o...

Fresh Air Archive, Ellen Degeneres and Andy Richter

Writer Benson Bobrick on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the author of the recently published Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. The book chronicles the difficulties scholars had in translating the Bible into English - efforts that culminated in the King James Version. Bobrick is the author of several books and lives in Brattleboro, Vermont. (Broadcast Date: April 18, 2001) 

Fresh Air, Benson Bobrick

Fifth Beatle Pete Best on this edition of Fresh Air. He was the drummer for the Beatles in their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg. His mother, Mona Best, was the owner of The Casbah Coffee Club in Liverpool. The various early incarnations of the B...

Fresh Air, Pete Best

Singers Teddy Pendergrass and Al Green on this edition of Fresh Air Teddy Pendergrass was a popular soul singer in the group "Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes". He went solo in 1976. In 1982, he was paralyzed after a near fatal car accident in Philad...

Fresh Air, Teddy Pendergrast and Al Green

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with British comedian, stand-up performer, and actor Eddie Izzard from the Fresh Air archive. Izzard has won over fans with his qui...

From the Fresh Air Archive, Eddie Izzard

Veteran CBS 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II producer George Crile and retired congressman Charlie Wilson on this edition of Fresh Air. George Crile is the author of the new book, Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operat...

Fresh Air, George Crile and Charlie Wilson

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker on this edition of Fresh Air. She's been acting for most of her life, including playing Annie on Broadway, the young bimbo in L.A. Story, and a fed-up fiancie in Honeymoon in Vegas. This is her fourth season starring in t...

Fresh Air, Sarah Jessica Parker

Writer Daniel Handler on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Daniel Handler is the author (under the name Lemony Snicket) of the children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events featuring the orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. In each of the ...

Fresh Air, Daniel Handler

Hear singer-songwriter Ray Davies on this edition of Fresh Air. Davies first became known as the leader of the band The Kinks. Songs like, "All Day and All of the Night", "You Really Got Me", "Tired of Waiting for You", and "Waterloo Sunset" made the...

Fresh Air, Ray Davies, February 29, 2008

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong and political satirist Christopher Buckley on this edition of Fresh Air. Armstrong is the author of the best selling books The Battle for God, Jerusalem, and The History of God. She'll discuss the religious history of...

Fresh Air, Karen Armstrong and Christopher Buckley

Aerospace consultant Nick Cook and artist John W. Jones on this edition of Fresh Air. Nick Cook is the author of the new book, The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. In the book, Cook tracks down the secret hi...

Fresh Air, Nick Cook and John W. Jones

Beth Wictum is lab director of the Veterinary Genetics Laboratory (VGL) at the University of California at Davis. It's a forensics lab that helps investigators solve crimes using animal DNA. For instance: a key clue in a sexual-assault conviction was...

Fresh Air, Beth Wictum and Christopher Scott, February 14, 2006

John Lasseter, Executive Vice President of Creative for Pixar, Inc. on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Lasseter was one of the founding members of the computer animated filmmaking company. He served as Director and Animator of the feature films To...

Fresh Air, John Lasseter

Former New York Times Balkans Bureau Chief and Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Hedges on this edition of Fresh Air. Hedges is currently living in New York. He's covered war zones in Central America, the Middle East, and the Balkans for more than 20 years and is the author of the new book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. (Broadcast Date: September 3, 2002)

Fresh Air, Chris Hedges

Novelists Paul Auster and Michael Cunningham on this edition of Fresh Air. New York based writer Paul Auster is the author of ten novels. His latest is The Book of Illusions. For a year beginning October 1999, Auster gathered stories sent to him by m...

Fresh Air, Paul Auster and Michael Cunningham

Writer Vernor Vinge and actor Steve Buscemi on this edition of Fresh Air. The author of 16 books of science fiction, Vernor Vinge gained a cult following for his early role in writing about cyber-culture and the Internet. His new book, Across Realtim...

Fresh Air, Vernor Vinge and Steve Buscemi

Filmmaker John Waters on this edition of Fresh Air. John Waters's latest film is Cecil B. Demented about an underground filmmaker and his cult following who declare war on bad cinema by kidnapping a starlet and forcing her to star in their own film. ...

Fresh Air, John Waters

Hear writer Alice Sebold and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Alice Sebold's new book is called The Almost Moon. It's about a middle aged woman who murders her ailing, elderly mother. Sebold is also the author of Lucky, an account...

Fresh Air, Alice Sebold, October 15, 2007

Historian and civil rights activist Roger Wilkins and writer Vernor Vinge on this edition of Fresh Air. Wilkins has written a new book Jefferson's Pillow. He considers our founding fathers and their conflicting attitudes toward race and how it affect...

Fresh Air, Roger Wilkins and Vernor Vinge

Czech writer Arnost Lustig and celebrity chef Mario Batali on this edition of Fresh Air. Arnost Lustig is considered one of the country's most prominent writers. His new novel Lovely Green Eyes is the story of a 15-year-old girl in Auschwitz and the ...

Fresh Air, Arnost Lustig and Mario Batali

Singer songwriter John Fogerty, TV critic Tom Shales and author James Andrew Miller on this edition of Fresh Air. John Fogerty's new album is a double CD concert album Premonition. Featured on the recording is many of his biggest hits with Creedence ...

Fresh Air, John Fogerty, Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller

Neal Conan, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation, on this archive edition of Fresh Air. During the summer of 2000, Conan took a hiatus from his duties at NPR to follow the fortunes of the Aberdeen Arsenal, a minor league baseball team. He was pursuing a lifelong dream: to become a baseball announcer. He writes about it in his new book: Play by Play: Baseball, Radio and Life in the Last Chance League. (Original Broadcast Date: May 8, 2002) 

Fresh Air, Neal Conan

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward and British actor Jeremy Northam on this edition of Fresh Air. Bob Woodward is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. He's the author of eight nonfiction best sellers including All the President's Men, and T...

Fresh Air, Bob Woodward and Jeremy Northam

Voice and acting coach Patsy Rodenburg and New York City Police Detective Dave Fitzpatrick on this edition of Fresh Air. Patsy Rodenburg's worked with some of the world's leading English-speaking actors, including Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, Maggie...

Fresh Air, Patsy Rodenburg and Dave Fitzpatrick

Former Washington deputy bureau chief for ABC News and award winning producer A'Lelia Bundles on this edition of Fresh Air. Her new book is a biography of her great-great-grandmother Madam C.J. Walker, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C...

Fresh Air, A'Lelia Bundles

Novelist Jay McInerney and actress Eva Marie Saint on this edition of Fresh Air. Jay McInerney broke onto the literary scene with his best selling novel Bright Lights, Big City, about the excesses of the a Manhattan yuppie in the 1980s. His new book ...

Fresh Air, Jay McInerney and Eva Marie Saint

Hear Middle East Ambassador Dennis Ross and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Dennis Ross served as US envoy to the Middle East from 1988 to 2001, during the elder Bush and Clinton administrations. His new book is Statecraft: How t...

Fresh Air, Dennis Ross, June 12, 2007

British historian Charles Tripp on this edition of Fresh Air. Tripp is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He's the author of A History of Iraq. Tripp talks about how Iraq became a nation, how Saddam became it's strongman, and what the U-S would likely face if it overthrows him. (Broadcast Date: September 25, 2002)

Fresh Air, Charles Tripp

A talk about the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Program on this edition of Fresh Air. The Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Program would allow federal agencies to share information about American citizens and aliens (thru the mining of ...

Fresh Air, Debating the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Program

Jazz bassist Ron Carter and filmmaker Burr Steers on this edition of Fresh Air. Ron Carter has more than two thousand recordings to his credit. From 1963-1968 he was part of the Miles Davis Quintet with Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, and Wayne Shorte...

Fresh Air, Ron Carter and Burr Steers

TV Producer Lawrence O'Donnell on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the creator and producer of NBC's new series Mr. Sterling about a freshman senator on Capitol Hill. Previously O'Donnell was a writer and producer for the first two seasons of NBC's Th...

Fresh Air, Lawrence O'Donnell

Filmmaker Errol Morris on this edition of Fresh Air. His new documentary, The Fog of War, is a profile of the man many considered to be the architect of the Vietnam conflict, Robert McNamara. Taken from a series of interviews Morris conducted with Mc...

Fresh Air, Errol Morris

Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and RUN-DMC vocalist Darryl McDaniels are on this edition of Fresh Air. Whedon is the executive producer of Buffy and co-executive producer of the Buffy Spin-off Angel. Whedon also writes for both ...

Fresh Air, Joss Whedon and Darryl McDaniels

Nuclear non-proliferation expert Joseph Cirincione on this edition of Fresh Air. He specializes in defense and proliferation issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He directs the Endowment's Non-Proliferation Project. The Endowment has just published the new report Iraq: What Next?, which examines the weapons inspection process so far. (Broadcast Date: January 28, 2003)

Fresh Air, Joseph Cirincione

Youssef M. Ibrahim, an expert on energy and the Middle East, talks about Iraqi oil on this edition of Fresh Air. Ibrahim is group editor at Energy Intelligence, a company that publishes news and provides data and analysis about international energy i...

Fresh Air, Youssef M. Ibrahim

Writer Jon Krakauer talks about his new book about Mormon Fundamentalism, Mormon practitioner Richard Turley and Nigerian-born actor Chiwetel Ejiofor on this edition of Fresh Air. Jon Krakauer is the author of the book Into Thin Air about the disastr...

Fresh Air, Jon Krakauer, Richard Turley, and Chiwetel Ejiofor

Former Catholic priest Christopher Schiavone on this edition of Fresh Air. He talks about living as a closeted homosexual in the priesthood, finally having an affair with a man, going into therapy and then leaving the ministry. All this occurred by 1992, years before the sexual abuse scandal. Schiavone wrote about his experience in an article for the Boston Globe Magazine. (Broadcast Date: January 2, 2003)

Fresh Air, Christopher Schiavone, January 2, 2003

Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Weiner and multi-ethnic author Greg Sarris on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Congress has decided to conduct a study of the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in the post-Cold War world. The agency suffered a shake-...

Fresh Air, Tim Weiner and Greg Sarris

Writer/director Paul Schrader and remembering historian Stephen Ambrose on this edition of Fresh Air. Paul Schrader directed the new film Autofocus, about the life of actor Bob Crane. Schrader wrote the screenplays for a number of classic films, incl...

Fresh Air, Paul Schrader and remembering Stephen Ambrose

Actress Jodie Foster on this edition of Fresh Air. Jodie Foster produced and acts in the new film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. Foster has won two Oscars for performances in The Silence of the Lambs and The Accused. She was also nominated for her work in Taxi Driver and Nell. She's also served as producer or director on numerous films. (Broadcast Date: June 17, 2002) 

Fresh Air, Jodie Foster

Soul week continues on Fresh Air. Two former members of the vocal group The Impressions - Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield on this edition of Fresh Air. Singer Jerry Butler, aka The Iceman. His 1969 hit, "Only the Strong Survive," is a rhythm and blu...

Fresh Air, Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield

The HBO hit series Sex and the City, begins a new season July 21st. On this edition of Fresh Air, we'll hear from two people involved with the show: actress Sarah Jessica Parker and writer and executive producer Michael Patrick King. Sarah Jessica Pa...

Fresh Air, Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Patrick King

Writer Neil Baldwin and remembering poet Lucy Grealy on this edition of Fresh Air. Baldwin is executive director of the National Book Foundation and author of the book, Henry Ford and the Jews, in which he details Ford's early obsession with moralist...

Fresh Air, Neil Baldwin and Lucy Grealy

Soul singer Al Green on this edition of Fresh Air. (Broadcast Date: November 27, 2003) 

Fresh Air, Al Green

Novelist Pat Conroy on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the author of several books including The Great Santini, and The Prince of Tides which were both made into feature films. Conroy's new book My Losing Season is a memoir about how playing basketball for the Citadel Military College transformed his life.Conroy was point guard and captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. (Broadcast Date: October 22, 2002)

Fresh Air, Pat Conroy

Business journalist Dan Briody talks about the Carlyle Group on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the author of The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group is one of the most powerful and well-connected private eq...

Fresh Air, Dan Briody

David Chase, creator and executive producer of the HBO hit series The Sopranos, on this archive edition of Fresh Air. The show had just completed its second season and experienced the death of one of its cast members, Nancy Marchand. (Original Broadcast Date: June 22, 2000)

Fresh Air, David Chase

The fourth season of HBO's critically acclaimed series, The Sopranos, starts this Sunday, September 15, 2002. On this edition of Fresh Air, TV critic David Bianculli talks about the new season and host Terry Gross talks two of the show's actors, Stev...

Fresh Air, Steven Van Zandt and Edie Falco

Oscar-winning animator John Lasseter and singer/guitarist Jon Langford on this edition of Fresh Air. John Lasseter is the Executive Vice President of Creative for Pixar, Inc. and one of the founding members of the computer animated filmmaking company...

Fresh Air, John Lasseter and Jon Langford

Wall Street Journal reporters Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller and comic Bill Maher on this edition of Fresh Air. Rebecca Smith is a national energy reporter and John R. Emshwiller is a senior national correspondent who covers white-collar crime....

Fresh Air, Rebecca Smith, John Emshwiller and Bill Maher

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) 

Fresh Air, Paul Auster

Phil Donahue, host and creator of The Phil Donahue show which originally went on the air in 1967 in Dayton, Ohio. It went into syndication in 1969, moved to Chicago in 1974, and then to New York before going off the air. Donahue's show gave rise to the daytime talk shows of today with audience participation and outrageous guests. (Original Broadcast Date: November 12, 1985)

Fresh Air Archive: Phil Donahue

Film director Rob Sitch on this edition of Fresh Air. Rob Sitch and his creative team at Working Dog, got their start in morning radio; then switched to TV. They made their first feature film The Castle in 1997. Their newest film The Dish is based on...

Fresh Air, Rob Sitch

Hear guitarist, songwriter, and actor Dave Grohl of the band Foo Fighters, and TV critic David Bianculli, on this edition of Fresh Air. The Foo Fighters' latest album, Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace, has been nominated for a Grammy as album of th...

Fresh Air, Dave Grohl, January 4, 2008

Singer and Songwriter Tom Waits on this edition of Fresh Air. Since the 1973 release of his first album, Closing Time, Waits has won over fans with his original songwriting and distinctive, gravely vocal style. One reviewer calls Waits "the Ultimate ...

Fresh Air, Tom Waits

Writer Joyce Johnson talks about her relationship to Beat icon Jack Kerouac, and her new book, Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters on this edition of Fresh Air. In 1957, Johnson started a relationship with the then little-known writer Kerou...

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