Fresh Air
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 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 National Public Radio (NPR) stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.
Scorsese Talks 'The Language of Cinema'
Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903) is a 12-minute film that em...

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In a talk he titled "Persistence of Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema," the famed famed director spoke passioantely about the history of cinema and the films that stoked his love for the medium.
Linney Mines 'The Big C' For Serious Laughs
Laura Linney and Alan Alda star in The Big C, now in its fourth season on Sh...

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On Showtime's dark comedy series, Laura Linney plays a terminally ill cancer patient. The actress's own father died from lung cancer while the series was being made; her mother was a cancer nurse at Sloan-Kettering when Linney was young. These experiences, she says, inform her performance.
Godwin's 'Flora': A Tale Of Remorse That Creeps Under Your Skin
Gail Godwin, whose latest novel is Flora, has been a finalist for the Nation...

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The latest novel from three-time National Book Award finalist Gail Godwin takes inspiration from Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. Both stories take place in isolated old houses, and both revolve around mental contests between a governess character and her young charge.