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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Television
A Measured Look At Roth As The Writer Turns 80
March 19, 2013 The celebration of Philip Roth's career reaches its peak in a new documentary — Philip Roth Unmasked — that will screen on PBS next week as part of the American Masters series. There's no doubt that Roth is a master, and not just an American one, but the film tiptoes around the novelist's dark ferocity.
Author Interviews
Veterans Face Red Tape Accessing Disability, Other Benefits
March 19, 2013 On the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, journalist Aaron Glantz talks about the challenges American service members face in accessing disability and other benefits. Glantz says there is a backlog of 900,000 claims and that the average waiting period is 273 days.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Television
Two New TV Dramas Look Below The Surface
March 18, 2013 Jane Campion directs a new Sundance Channel miniseries, Top of the Lake, about a young New Zealand detective played by Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss. Meanwhile, producers from Lost and Friday Night Lights team up to create a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, called Bates Motel.
Author Interviews
'Still Point': A Meditation On Mothering A Dying Child
March 18, 2013 In 2011, Emily Rapp's baby was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a genetic, degenerative condition with no cure. He died just shy of his third birthday. In her new memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, Rapp writes about what it's like to care for a terminally ill child.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Fresh Air Weekend
Fresh Air Weekend: Adrian Younge, 'Frankenstein's Cat' And Tegan And Sara
March 16, 2013 Spaghetti Westerns, opera and the Wu-Tang Clan come together in the music of Adrian Younge. Emily Anthes talks about how scientists are working to create pigs that can grow organs for human transplant. Tegan and Sara depart from their indie singer-songwriter roots with their latest album.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Movie Reviews
Three New Films Examine What It Means When Girls Act Out
March 15, 2013 Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa and Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills are wildly different films, yet they share a common impulse: to demonstrate indelibly how for girls, behaving outrageously is still a political act.
Movie Interviews
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Man Behind 'The Master'
March 15, 2013 The director of Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood talks to Fresh Air's Terry Gross about The Master, a tense drama with indelible performances from Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Author Interviews
Two Awards In One Day For 'Battleborn' Author Claire Vaye Watkins
March 14, 2013 On Wednesday, it was announced that the 28-year-old fiction writer had won the Story Prize as well as the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her debut story collection explores the landscape, people and history of the American West.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Author Interviews
A Young Man Gets 'Filthy Rich' Boiling, Bottling Tap Water
March 13, 2013 Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia explores life in the modern megalopolis and the growing scarcity of clean water. In search of his fortune, Hamid's protagonist lands on a scam to boil and sell tap water as bottled mineral water in a novel that takes inspiration from self-help books.
Music Reviews
The Moving Sidewalks: Where The British Invasion Met Texas Blues
March 13, 2013 Before he became the guitarist for ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons was in a band called the Moving Sidewalks that just missed its shot at stardom. The album the Moving Sidewalks never released in the late 1960s was released in late 2012 and is very much a period piece, albeit a very well-made one.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Music Interviews
Adrian Younge: Looking Back To Move Hip-Hop Forward
March 12, 2013 Spaghetti Westerns, Philadelphia soul, opera and the Wu-Tang Clan all come together in the music of Adrian Younge. He has produced and composed two new albums — one with William Hart, the lead singer of The Delfonics, and another with rapper Ghostface Killah.
Book Reviews
'Lean In': Not Much Of A Manifesto, But Still A Win For Women
March 12, 2013 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has drawn a lot of attention with her "sort of a feminist manifesto" Lean In. Critic Maureen Corrigan finds that much of the book is bland, but toward the end, Sandberg's intellectual charisma breaks through.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Music Reviews
Tegan And Sara Reach Out To New Audiences
March 11, 2013 The twin sisters from Canada depart from their indie singer-songwriter roots with their latest album. The music on Heartthrob is often loaded with a carefully articulated sense of doubt that Tegan and Sara suggest needs to be shaken off through a triumph of the pop-music will.
Author Interviews
'Frankenstein's Cat': Bioengineering The Animals Of The Future
March 11, 2013 Science journalist Emily Anthes talks about how scientists are engineering mice with tumors and working to create pigs that can grow organs for human transplant and insects that could serve as drones for the military.
