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Crime novelist Dennis Lehane, TV critic Tom Shales and author James Andrew Miller on this edition of Fresh Air. Dennis Lehane's written five novels featuring the working-class Boston private detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. They include A Drink Before the War, Darkness Take My Hand, Sacred, Gone, Baby, Gone, and Prayers for Rain.

Director Mike Nichols on this archive edition of Fresh Air. He directed the new HBO movie Wit based on the Pulitzer-prize winning off-Broadway play.

Host of NPR's The Tavis Smiley show, Tavis Smiley and the head of Afghanistan's Human Rights Commission, Dr. Sima Samar on this edition of Fresh Air. Tavis Smiley is the author of the new book Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America. The book is a collection of personal narratives by ordinary African Americans.

Psychotherapist Dr. Shirley Glass and Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Glass discusses "the new infidelity crisis." She's studied extramarital affairs since the mid 1970's and has written a new book called NOT Just Friends: Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal. She says that the workplace has become the new breeding ground for extramarital affairs.

Writer John Ridley on this archive edition of Fresh Air. He wrote the screenplay for the film Undercover Brother, which began life as a web site animation. The film is an action comedy replete with seventies fashions. Concurrently, Ridley has just published a novel, A Conversation with the Mann, about a black comic in the civil rights era of the early sixties.

Film director Joel Schumacher and actor Greg Kinnear on this edition of Fresh Air. Joel Schumacher's films include St. Elmo's Fire, The Client, A Time to Kill, and Batman Forever. His latest film, Tigerland, is now out on video. It's about a group of army recruits in training who are about to be shipped off to Vietnam. The film was made on a low budget in 28 days, on 16 millimeter film and mostly with hand-held cameras.

Reporter and author Stephen Handleman on this edition of Fresh Air. For the many bureaucrats, corrupt army generals, black market racketeers, and others who held power and wealth in the old Soviet system, making a buck has never been easier. Organized crime is in the downside of free enterprise in the new Russia.

It's the 2002 wrap up on this edition of Fresh Air. Film critic John Powers reviews the year-end movies, book critic Maureen Corrigan offers her list of the best books of 2002, writer John Szwed talks about his new biography of Miles Davis, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews some holiday box sets.

Sexologist Leonore Tiefer on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Tiefer's book, Sex Is Not a Natural Act, looks at our society's anxieties and ignorances towards sex. She also questions what is "normal" sex and how people are to know how to have sex if no one talks about it. Tiefer received a Ph.D. in physiological psychology with a dissertation on hormones and mating behavior of rats. But she came to realize she knew nothing of the social norms of sexuality and questioned how sexual norms evolved.

Political satirist Bill Maher on this edition of Fresh Air. He's just published When you ride ALONE you ride with bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism.

Novelist David Leavitt and poet Yehuda Amichai on this archive edition of Fresh Air. David Leavitt's new book is Martin Bauman; or, a Sure Thing. It is a look at the Manhattan publishing scene as viewed through the eyes of 19-year-old Martin Bauman. Leavitt's own first book, Family Dancing, was published when he was just 23. Leavitt's other books include The Lost Language of Cranes, Equal Affections, and While England Sleeps.

Filmmaker Peter Jackson and photographer Doug Niven on this edition of Fresh Air. Peter Jackson directed Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. The film has been nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Director, Best Picture and Screenplay. His other films include Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners. The New Zealander is also slated to direct the other two upcoming films of the Hobbit trilogy, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin on this edition of Fresh Air. He's best known for his cult films Tales From the Gimli Hospital, (1998) and Careful (1992). In 1995, Maddin was the youngest person to receive the Telluride Medal for Lifetime Achievement at the Telluride Film Festival.

Science writer Douglas Starr on this edition of Fresh Air. His book, Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce, inspired the upcoming PBS series Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood. The four-part production premieres June 23, 2002. Starr is co-director of the Knight Center for Science and Medical Journalism at Boston University. Starr has contributed to many publications including Time, Sports Illustrated, The Los Angeles Times and Smithsonian magazine.

On this archival edition of Fresh Air, playwright and satirist from South Africa Pieter Dirk-Uys, and writer and director Todd Haynes. Dirk-Uys has a television talk show in South Africa that has an unusual twist. Instead of hosting his show as himself, he dresses drag as an Afrikaner dowager named Evita. His guests include such leaders as Nelson Mandela. His show is said to be "a way of making the country's leaders seem more human."

On this edition of Fresh Air, host Terry Gross speaks about the turmoil in Israel with Newsweek's Middle East bureau chief, Christopher Dickey.

British film director Michael Winterbottom and science writer David Quammen on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Winterbottom's films include Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, and Wonderland.

Directors Chris and Paul Weitz on this edition of Fresh Air. Their new film, About a Boy, is based on the novel by Nick Hornby and plays in theaters now. The Weitz brothers, born to fashion designer John Weitz and Oscar nominated actress Susan Kohner, first became famous for directing the 1999 teen comedy, American Pie. They also wrote the screenplay for the animated movie Antz and directed the Chris Rock movie Down to Earth.

Novelist Pat Conroy on this edition of Fresh Air. Pat Conroy wrote The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, which were both made into feature films. Conroy's book, My Losing Season, is now out in paperback.

Writer David Kertzer on this edition of Fresh Air. Kertzer is the author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism. In the book, he focuses on the time period from Napolean to Hitler, and how 'traditional' Catholic forms of dealing with Jews became transformed into modern anti-Semitism. Kertzer is Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Studies and a professor of anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University.