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Terry Gross

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program. The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions. Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.

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Dan Auerbach Likes It Fast, Simple And Loud

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Producer Dan Auerbach achieves an ideal version of JEFF The Brotherhood and Hacienda on their respective new albums.

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By Ken Tucker

Originally published on Mon August 6, 2012 12:23 pm

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Dan Auerbach, one of two founders of The Black Keys, also maintains an active side business as a producer for other bands that share his love for blues- and country-influenced rock. Auerbach's production work can be heard on two new records: Hacienda's third album, Shakedown, and the major-label debut of JEFF The Brotherhood, titled Hypnotic Nights.

8:03 am

Sat August 4, 2012

Fresh Air Weekend: Feminists, Models, Roma Music

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In About Face, former supermodels (including Carmen Dell'Orefice shown above) talk about what it's like to grow old in an industry that is obsessed with youth.

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Originally published on Sat August 4, 2012 11:36 am

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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

11:41 am

Fri August 3, 2012

Crum: Lee Maynard's 'Love Letter' To His Hometown

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Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 2:10 pm

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Lee Maynard's 1988 semi-autobiographical novel Crum is set in the small, poor West Virginia town where he grew up. The people of Crum who know the book tend to love it or hate it. It was even banned for several years in a state-run store. The sequel, Screaming With the Cannibals, which came out five years later, got his protagonist Jesse Stone out of West Virginia, across the Tug River into Kentucky.

11:40 am

Fri August 3, 2012

Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal

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Gore Vidal authored the historical novels Burr and Lincoln, wrote plays and provocative essays, ran for office twice — and lost — and frequently appeared on TV talk shows. His play The Best Man currently has a revival on Broadway.

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Originally published on Fri August 3, 2012 2:03 pm

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In Gore Vidal's New York Times obituary, Charles McGrath described the writer as "the elegant, acerbic all around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization." Vidal died Tuesday at the age of 86.

12:32 pm

Thu August 2, 2012

A Moody Tale Of Murder In A 'Broken' Dublin Suburb

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Broken window.

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Tana French is the author of the "Dublin Murder Squad" series, of which Broken Harbor is the fourth installment.

By Maureen Corrigan

Originally published on Thu August 2, 2012 3:18 pm

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Mid-20th-century mystery master Ross MacDonald is credited with moving hard-boiled crime off the mean streets of American cities and smack into the suburbs. In MacDonald's mythical California town of Santa Teresa, modeled on Santa Barbara, evil noses its way into gated communities, schools and shopping centers that have been built expressly to escape the dirt and danger of the city.

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10:58 am

Mon August 6, 2012