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Richard Poplak on "The Sheik's Batmobile"

Richard Poplak tells Anne Strainchamps about the ill-fated attempt to adapt The Simpsons for the Arab world.

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Mark Brend on "Strange Sounds: Offbeat Instruments and Sonic Experients in Pop"

Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.

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Lupe Fiasco on Muslim Hip Hop

Lupe Fiasco is a rap star and a devout Muslim.  His debut album is called "Food and Liquor" and was nominated for 3 Grammy Awards.

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Natalie Goldberg on "The Great Failure"

Writer and writing coach Natalie Goldberg tells Anne Strainchamps how two of the most important men in her life - her father and her Zen master – failed her.

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Jeanine Basinger on "The Star Machine"

Jeanine Basinger tells Anne Strainchamps how the movie studios manufactured stars from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Richard Ranft on Sounds in the Ocean

Richard Ranft says the oceans are teeming with noises and plays Jim Fleming a few examples from snapping shrimp to amorous haddock and walruses.

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Nicholson Baker on the Kindle

Novelist Nicholson Baker tells Anne Strainchamps that e-readers have some advantages over the printed book, but the Kindle isn't his favorite.

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Jill Fredston on Rowing the Arctic

Jill Fredston and her husband spend months every year rowing in the Arctic. And she tells a whale of a fish story!

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