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Bonus audio from Sheryl Lee Ralph's Sept. 2022 interview on "Fresh Air with Terry Gross."

Sheryl Lee Ralph on starting elementary school

In an audio extra from the Misty Copeland Fresh Air interview, the ballerina talks about how she went into "performance mode" for the labor of her son.

Misty Copeland loved giving birth

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Thomas Mallon's diary entries detailing life in Manhattan during the '80s during the AIDS epidemic were recently published in 'The New Yorker.' He has 140 volumes of journals now living in the Library of Congress. In this audio extra, he talks to Terry Gross on 'Fresh Air' about keeping a journal.

Full interview: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1162151663/novelist-thomas-mallon-looks-back-on-the-early-years-of-the-aids-epidemic

Writer Thomas Mallon on keeping a journal

Humorist Samantha Irby talks about living with Crohn's disease on 'Fresh Air' on May 16, 2023. Her new essay collection is 'Quietly Hostile.'

Full interview: https://rb.gy/hc4hv

Humorist Samantha Irby desecrates the NPR airwaves

Sinclair recites Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" and her own poem about her father.

Safiya Sinclair on how poetry saved her

Filmmaker and author Werner Herzog tells Terry Gross about an epiphany he had at age 17.

Full interview: https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208303973/werner-herzog-memoir-every-man-for-himself-and-god-against-all

Werner Herzog has an epiphany

Jason Moran's latest album is a tribute to James Reese Europe, the composer and musician who led the Harlem Hellfighters regiment band during WWI. Moran took one of Europe's songs, and did his own version at the piano on "Fresh Air with Terry Gross." (Originally broadcast Aug. 7, 2023.)

Jason Moran sings "All of No Man's Land is Ours"

Tracee Ellis Ross talks about formative music and fashion.

Tracee Ellis Ross on the music that made her

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