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TERRY GROSS of NPR’s show “Fresh Air” is heard by more than 4 million listeners — in our interview she talks about what went wrong in her interviews with Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and Bill O’Reilly. Also, she answers the question, “What is the deal with rumors that you are a lesbian?” Her book, All I Did was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists, is out in paperback. (originally broadcast 11/04)
Also –from the Center for the Study of the Lower East Side, our interview with the great RICHARD PRICE about his novel — out now in paperback — LUSH LIFE. (originally broadcast 3/09)
Plus: FRIEDRICH ENGELS – “a foxhunting man, a womanizing, champagne-drinking capitalist” – and a lifelong revolutionary. Also, “far more adventurous than Marx when it came to exploring the ramifications of his and Marx’s thinking.” TRISTRAM HUNT explains. MARX’S GENERAL: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS is his book, out now in paperback. (originally broadcast 9/09)