Fresh Air
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Fresh Air Weekend: Jon Bon Jovi; Novelist Leigh Bardugo
Bon Jovi talks about his vocal surgery and the road to recovery. Maureen Corrigan reviews a collection of Emily Dickinson's letters. Bardugo's new novel, The Familiar, is set in 16th century Spain.
'Interstellar': A Good Old-Fashioned Chunk Of Sci-Fi Silliness
by David Edelstein
Christopher Nolan's film stars Matthew McConaughey as an astronaut who takes his ship through a wormhole to another galaxy to find a home for earth's inhabitants. It's cool, awe-inspiring and goofy.
'Merry Widow' Operetta: Stage Versus Screen
by Lloyd Schwartz
The Metropolitan Opera will be celebrating New Year's Eve with Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow in a new production starring soprano Fleming. But its greatest incarnations have been on film.
Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared
"The more carny it got, the better I liked it," King says of his new thriller, Joyland. King talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his career writing horror, and about what scares him now.
Taylor Swift: The Peppiest Pop Star We Have Right Now
by Ken Tucker
1989 sidesteps country music entirely to become Swift's first pure pop album.
With New Campaign Finance Rules, You Can't Really Follow The Money
Campaign finance rules allow some groups to not disclose their donors. The New York Times' Nick Confessore says there could be "influence peddling ... because we can't see the money changing hands."
The Mysterious Case of Arthur Conley, Otis Redding's Protege
by Ed Ward
Singer Conley had a number of hits before disappearing in the '70s, a few years after his mentor Redding died in a plane crash. So where did he go? To Europe, where he changed his name.