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"Im Terry Gross and this is Fresh Air . . ."
Now available in paperback -- a selection of revealing interviews from the award-winning National Public Radio show
Originating from WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and heard on more than 450 NPR stations, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has become a daily habit with millions of listeners nationwide -- a must for anyone hoping to keep up with what's happening in the arts. Over the last twenty years, Terry's guests have included our most significant writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists.
For her first collection, Terry has chosen more than three dozen timeless interviews that prove to be as lively on the page as they were on the radio. Her questions -- probing yet sensitive -- encourage revelations from figures as diverse as John Updike, Isabella Rossellini, Conan OBrien, Samuel L. Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Nicolas Cage. And in her introduction, the generally self-effacing host of Fresh Air does something she wouldnt dream of doing on the air -- she reveals a thing or two about herself.
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Terry Gross has spent practically her entire adult life in public radio, since beginning her career at WBFO-FM, the NPR affiliate on the campus of her alma mater, the State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1973. She became producer and host of Fresh Air in 1975, when it was still a local program. Fresh Air won a Peabody Award in 1994 for "its probing questions, revelatory interviews, and unusual insights." In 2003, Terry received public radio’s highest honor, the Edward R. Murrow Award. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the writer Francis Davis.
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"You may be wondering what the point is of reading interviews that were meant to be listened to. I've asked myself that. But in going through transcripts in preparation for this book, I was pleasantly surprised that so many of the interviews I remembered as having been good radio also made for enjoyable reading. In reading the ones gathered here -- I probably shouldn't admit this--I've learned things from them that went right by me in the studio." --from the Introduction
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- PublisherSan Val
- ISBN 10 1417771747
- ISBN 13 9781417771745
- BindingHardcover
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