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Novelist Francine Prose and singer and guitarist Alex Chilton on this edition of Fresh Air. Prose's new book Blue Angel echoes the title of the film classic.

Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker magazine on this edition of Fresh Air. The design for the World Trade Center site has been chosen. Goldberger describes the selection process and comments on architect Daniel Libeskind's winning proposal.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Photographer Robert Freeman on this edition of Fresh Air. Triumph appears regularly on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He's a puppet and the creation of Robert Smigel, who also created the animated short "TV Funhouse" on Saturday Night Live.

Journalist Gabrielle Glaser and singers Tony Bennett and K.D. Lang on this edition of Fresh Air. Gabrielle Glaser's new book is The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival. The book is a history of the nose (and smell), its science, biology and cultural significance. Host Terry Gross will talk with her primarily about how the nose and sinuses work.

Cancer researcher John Mendelsohn, M.D.. He is the president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.

Writer Vernor Vinge and actor Steve Buscemi on this edition of Fresh Air. The author of 16 books of science fiction, Vernor Vinge gained a cult following for his early role in writing about cyber-culture and the Internet. His new book, Across Realtime, came out earlier this year. He talks about the difficulty of writing science fiction when technology outdates itself as rapidly as it does. Vinge teaches computer science at San Diego State.

Our series on hard rock and heavy metal continues with Robert Plant, the former lead singer of the band Led Zeppelin on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Plant is an influential pioneer of heavy metal music. Plant co-wrote (with Jimmy Page) one of the most popular and parodied hard rock ballads, "Stairway to Heaven". Led Zeppelin formed in 1968 and broke up in 1980.

Writer Neil Baldwin and remembering poet Lucy Grealy on this edition of Fresh Air. Baldwin is executive director of the National Book Foundation and author of the book, Henry Ford and the Jews, in which he details Ford's early obsession with moralistic writings condemning Jews for not accepting Christ. Grealy died in December 2002 at the age of 39. As a child, she spent five years being treated for cancer, which left her face disfigured.

Authors Dalton Conley and Niall Ferguson on this edition of Fresh Air. Dalton Conley is the author of the memoir, Honky, about growing up white in a predominately African American.

Former US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Ron Suskind on this edition of Fresh Air. The two have collaborated on the new book, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill. The book chronicles his nearly two years with the Bush administration.

Psychologist Judith Wallerstein and journalist Fred Schulte on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Judith Wallerstein interviewed over 50 couples about how and why their relationships work. She summaries her findings in her book The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts. Fred Schulte writes for the Ft. Lauderdale South Florida Sun Sentinel. He investigated the telemarketing industry for his latest book, Fleeced! Telemarketing Rip-Offs and How to Avoid Them.

Actress and playwright Anna Deveare Smith and writer, director and exotic dancer Julia Query on this edition of Fresh Air. Deveare Smith is best known for her one-woman plays based on hundreds of interviews she did with diverse people who experienced a crisis in their community. They include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 about the Rodney King verdict, and Fires in the Mirror about the Crown Heights disturbances.

John Lasseter, Executive Vice President of Creative for Pixar, Inc. on this edition of Fresh Air.

Celebrating Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre on this edition of Fresh Air. The Steppenwolf Theater celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The actor-driven theatre is known for its ensemble acting and cutting-edge acting style. It's members include John Mahoney (Martin Crane on Frazier), John Malkovich, Kevin Anderson, and four actors whom you'll hear from.

Gary Milhollin and Lutz Kleveman on this edition of Fresh Air. Gary Milhollin is director the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, a non-profit research group in Washington, DC, that has been tracking the spread of weapons of mass destruction since 1986. He will talk about who currently has nuclear weapons, who is developing them, who has intelligence about them and who poses the biggest threat.

Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain and music legend Johnny Cash on this edition of Fresh Air. Her first novel, My Dream of You.

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights to today's issue of Fresh Air, we have selected a great interview with the late writer Carol Shields from the Fresh Air archive. In this interview, Carol Shields discusses her life, her work, and her diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her best-selling novel The Stone Diaries. She died on July 16, 2003. Her last novel, Unless was written after her diagnosis.

Hear film director David Cronenberg and actor Viggo Mortensen, music critic Milo Miles, and linguist Geoff Nunberg on this edition of Fresh Air.

Economist Paul Krugman on this edition of Fresh Air. He's collected the last three years of his New York Times Op-ed columns in the new book, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.

Hear presidential historian Michael Beschloss and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Beschloss' new book is Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989. He takes a look at the crucial moments when a President risked his political career for the good of the country, often by taking an unpopular or controversial stand.