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  • Robert Mankoff is cartoon editor of The New Yorker magazine, and runs its online component, The Cartoon Bank. A new 80th anniversary collection, The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker has just been published. Mankoff wrote The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Creativity. It's a how-to of cartooning and a collection of New Yorker cartoons. This interview was first broadcast Nov. 27, 2002.
  • Actor Spalding Gray, famous for his autobiographical monologues, was found dead on March 7 in New York's East River. He'd been missing for two months. In the first in a two-part series, Terry Gross speaks with people who knew Gray well, including his wife, Kathie Russo. The second features excerpts of Gray's Fresh Air interviews.
  • Lead singer and songwriter, Ray Davies started The Kinks in 1964 with his brother, Dave. His latest album is the solo effort, Other People's Lives. Said to be the pioneers of the rowdy garage band genre of rock music, The Kinks had many hits including "You Really Got Me," "Lola," "All Day and All of the Night" and "Tired of Waiting for You." This interview originally aired on Apr. 3, 2006.
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike died of lung cancer on Jan. 27. Fresh Air remembers the writer with archival interviews from 1988, 1989 and 1997.
  • The novelist and essayist was found dead in his home Sept. 12, reportedly a suicide. Fresh Air remembers him with an interview first aired in 1997, the year he won the MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grant.
  • President Bush sits down with NPR's Juan Williams for his first broadcast interview since the State of the Union. They discuss the environment, health care, the federal budget and the quality of intelligence coming out of Iran.
  • We're celebrating 25 years on the air with another dive into our archive. Enjoy interviews with John Goodman, Sam Waterston, Jenny Slate, and a never-before-heard Bluff game!
  • WAMC interviewed Troy mayoral candidates Republican Carmella Mantello and Democrat Nina Nichols on Midday Magazine.
  • An interview with Vassar College President Elizabeth Bradley.
  • "I believe that every creature on this earth... was created equal," Deen said in an interview with the Today Show.
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