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All I did was ask : conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists / Terry Gross.
Lippincott Library HE8697.95.U6 G76 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fresh air with Terry Gross (Radio program).
- National Public Radio (U.S.).
- Radio journalism--United States.
- Radio journalism.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 353 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hyperion, [2004]
- Summary:
- For this collection, award-winning interviewer Terry Gross has selected more than three dozen of her most entertaining and revealing interviews for National Public Radio's premier program "Fresh Air." Known for her thoughtful, probing style, Gross precedes each of the more than three dozen selections with an explanation of why each guest was on the show and the thinking behind some of her question.
- Contents:
- Don't Do It / Nicolas Cage 1
- Like a Skinny Boxer / Chris Rock 13
- Being Square / John Updike 19
- A Man's Voice / Johnny Cash 29
- Lift Everything Up / Charlie Haden 37
- Erotic Cheese and Crackers / Mary Karr 45
- A New Gift / Andre Dubus, Andre Dubus III 53
- The Craft Itself / Uta Hage 63
- Use the Disadvantage / Michael Caine 69
- Right in the Gut / Mickey Spillane 81
- You Will Not Find the Word "Lesbian" / Ann Bannon 87
- We All Die / Walter Mosley 95
- A Family Courtesy / Mario Puzo 103
- Make Sense of It Later / George Clinton 111
- Bootzilla Twenty-seven Hours a Day / Bootsy Collins 119
- Dissonance / Nick Hornby 127
- In the Junkyards / Grandmaster Flash 137
- Alive in a Coffin / Paul Schrader 143
- A Difficult Place to Grow Up / Jodie Foster 157
- I Never Told Jokes / Albert Brooks 167
- Beauty Gone Berserk / Divine 177
- Kissing and Licking Boots / Mary Woronov 185
- To Iron a Shirt / Joyce Johnson 193
- So What? / Larry Rivers 205
- Not to Think / Sonny Rollins 213
- Send the Salami / Hal David 221
- Like Raw Meat / Isabella Rossellini 227
- A Little out of Whack / Dennis Hopper 237
- The Way People Look / Chuck Close 247
- It Gets Harder / Frank Stella 255
- Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Tap Dancer / Conan O'Brien 263
- Nothing Else Would Matter / Eric Clapton 277
- A Large Feminine Side / Steven Tyler, Joe Perry 287
- Too Much for You to Take / Gene Simmons 293
- Dramatic Beats / Samuel L. Jackson 305
- Stop Acting / Dustin Hoffman 319
- In That Hurricane / James Baldwin 327
- A Place of Protection / Carol Shields 331
- A Fraudulent Angel / Maurice Sendak 339.
- ISBN:
- 1401300103
- OCLC:
- 54459942
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