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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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Explosions At Boston Marathon
4:13 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

David Bianculli On Media Coverage Of The Marathon Explosions

Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 10:41 pm

Fresh Air TV critic David Bianculli talks with Terry Gross about the media coverage surrounding the explosions at the Boston Marathon.

Explosions At Boston Marathon
12:27 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

'Messing With The Wrong City' And Boston Media Coverage

Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 10:41 pm

Author Dennis Lehane talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about his New York Times op-ed, "Messing with the Wrong City," which expressed his love for his hometown.

Explosions At Boston Marathon
12:27 pm
Fri April 19, 2013

Journalists Charles Sennott And Seth Mnookin Discuss Boston Manhunt

Originally published on Fri April 19, 2013 10:41 pm

Charles Sennott, vice president, executive editor and co-founder of GlobalPost, talks with Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the ongoing manhunt in Boston. Seth Mnookin, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, describes live-tweeting the events at MIT.

Movie Interviews
11:53 am
Thu April 18, 2013

Sebastian Junger: 'Which Way' To Turn After Hetherington's Death

Credit Tim A. Hetherington
Photographer Tim Hetherington during an assignment for Vanity Fair Magazine at the Restrepo outpost.

War photographer Tim Hetherington said he thought war was wired into young men. And he risked, and ultimately gave, his life to capture these young men in photographs and video — in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and other war zones. Hetherington was killed by shrapnel from a mortar round while taking pictures in Libya in 2011, during the uprising against President Moammar Gadhafi.

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Around the Nation
2:15 pm
Wed April 17, 2013

'The Hell Of American Day Care': Expensive And 'Mediocre'

Originally published on Wed April 17, 2013 2:49 pm

In his cover story for the April 29 issue of The New Republic, "The Hell of American Day Care," Jonathan Cohn writes that "trusting your child with someone else is one of the hardest things a parent has to do — and in the U.S., it's harder still, because American day care is a mess. And about 40 percent of children under 5 spend at least part of their week in the care of somebody other than a parent."

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