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Fresh Air Weekend: Amanda Knox; 'Adolescence' creator and star Stephen Graham

5:00am April 05, 2025

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Her memoir is Free. Ken Tucker reviews new albums by Lucy Dacus and Jeffrey Lewis. Graham discusses youth violence.

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Bob Dylan in 1970, the year he released his 10th studio album, Self Portrait.

Music & Culture

Bob Dylan's 'Self Portrait,' Now In Vivid Color

by Ken Tucker

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Music & Culture

When Duke Flirted With The Queen

by Kevin Whitehead

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Jonathan Lethem's other books include The Ecstasy of Influence, Chronic City and Girl in Landscape.

Books
Arts

For Novelist Jonathan Lethem, Radicalism Runs In The Family

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John Zorn's latest album is Dreamachines, which is inspired by Brion Gysin and William Burroughs' cut-up techniques.

Fresh Air Weekend: John Zorn, Superchunk And 'Cat Sense'

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Superchunk's new album is titled I Hate Music.

Music & Culture

On Its New Album, Superchunk Makes The Downtrodden Sound Upbeat

by Ken Tucker

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The Prisonaires, a band formed in a Memphis-area prison, created one of Sun Records' early hits.

Music & Culture

The Dawn Of Sun Records: 15 Hours Of Blues

by Ed Ward

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Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow in Sons of Anarachy on FX.

Katey Sagal, Holding Court On 'Sons Of Anarchy'

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Arts

Seth Meyers' Prime-Time Political Parody

For Fresh Air's Late Night week, we listen back to a 2008 interview with Seth Meyers, head writer at Saturday Night Live, and the co-anchor of Weekend Update. Meyers will be taking over from Jimmy Fallon on Late Night, now that Fallon is moving to The Tonight Show. A longer version of this interview was originally broadcast on Oct. 29, 2008.

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