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Terry Gross

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program. The veteran public radio interviewer is known for her extraordinary ability to engage guests of all dispositions. Every weekday she delights intelligent and curious listeners with revelations on contemporary societal concerns.

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The Man Who Studies The Fungus Among Us

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The Shroom With A View: Mushrooms are fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting bodies found all over the world. They can grow in any practically any environment with moisture.

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The Phallus impudicus is also called the common stinkhorn. It smells like a dead animal, but is not poisonous.

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10:09 am

Wed January 18, 2012

Michael Fassbender: Portraying An Addict's 'Shame'

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In Shame, Brandon (Matthew Fassbender) pursues sex not for pleasure but to fulfill a driving compulsion.

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Michael Fassbender (left, with Mia Wasikowska) is Jane's employer and eventual lover, Rochester, in Jane Eyre.

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In the past year, actor Michael Fassbender has played a mutant villain in X-Men: First Class, psychoanalyst Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method, Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre and a sex addict in Shame.

It was his role in Shame that recently earned Fassbender a string of accolades, including Best Actor nominations at the Golden Globes and a variety of critics associations.

10:48 am

Tue January 17, 2012

'A Separation' Of Hearts, Minds And Ideas In Iran

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Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi) are at odds first about whether to leave Iran for life abroad — and then about more pressing issues.

By John Powers

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Over the past 30-odd years, we've grown used to thinking of Iran and the United States as enemies — from the Ayatollah Khomeini dubbing America "The Great Satan" to the dispute over Iran's nuclear program, which has led President Obama to spearhead international sanctions and some of his Republican rivals to talk of bombing Iran.

9:38 am

Tue January 17, 2012

Writing About The Midwestern Muslim Experience

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Ayad Akhtar is a first generation Pakistani-American screenwriter and playwright from Milwaukee. American Dervish is his first novel.

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Playwright Ayad Akhtar's debut novel, American Dervish, tells the story of Hayat Shah, a Pakistani-American boy in Milwaukee coming to terms with his religion and identity.

Ahktar says that he drew from the sensibilities of Jewish writers and filmmakers like Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Woody Allen when thinking about how to give form to his experiences growing up as a young Muslim in the Midwest.

7:06 am

Mon January 16, 2012

Get 'Lost' In J.J. Abrams' Latest Show 'Alcatraz'

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In the two-hour premiere episode of Alcatraz, Rebecca (Sarah Jones) looks for clues to a missing prisoner from the 1960s who suddenly reappears in modern day.

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Timothy Olyphant (left) and Walton Goggins return for season three of Justified, along with a slew of guest stars including Carla Gugino and Neal McDonough.

By David Bianculli

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Let's begin with Justified – because, frankly, that's the one that's got me the most excited.

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Wed January 18, 2012