Terry Gross

Writer Mary Karr, author of the best-selling memoir The Liars Club. Her new memoir Cherry which chronicles her teen age years is now out in paperback. In a follow up to what critics call 'a hard scrabble childhood', she returns to East Texas to detail her adolescence. Karr relates anecdotes of rebellion, self doubt and sexual coming of age. The recipient of several literary awards such as the Pushcart Prize and the Bunting Award, she has published two volumes of poetry. She is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University.

Producer/ Director Terry Zwigoff recently directed the new film Ghost World based on the graphic novel of the same name by Daniel Clowes. Zwigoff also directed the documentary, Crumb about the life of Robert Crumb, the famous underground artist who popularized characters such as Mr. Natural, Flakey Foont and Keep on Truckin'. He also directed the documentary Louie Bluie.

Cartoonist Daniel Clowes. Drawn in 1950s pop culture style, his comics are darkly humorous satires of middle class America. His graphic novel Ghost World (first published in 1993) is the basis of the new film of the same name. His first comic book series was Lloyd Llewellyn, followed by Eightball (both published by Fantagraphics Books). Clowes was the first cartoonist to contribute a comic story to Esquire annual fiction issue.

Writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor. He is the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast from Minnesota and heard weekly on public radio stations nationwide. Keillor has just published two new books. One is a semi-autobiographical novel, called Lake Wobegon Summer 1956. (Viking) The other is in collaboration with photographer Richard Olsenius: In Search of Lake Wobegon (Viking Studio). It an effort to capture in words and pictures the people and places that inspired the fictional town of Lake Wobegon.

Film critic Pauline Kael died yesterday at the age of 82. We will talk with her former editor William Whitworth. He was her editor at the New Yorker from 1975 to 1980. He also former editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and currently Editor Emeritus of the Atlantic.

We listen back to a 1985 interview with Pauline Kael. She reviewed movies for the New Yorker for 25 years, and wrote 13 books about the cinema, including a National Book Award winner. Her most recent book was a collection of more than 275 of her reviews, called For Keeps: Thirty Years at the Movies (1994, Dutton).

Martha Reeves is the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, the Motown group which made it big in the 60's with such hits as "Nowhere to Run," "Heat Wave," and "Dancing in the Street." Her autobiography, "Dancing in the Street: Confessions of a Motown Diva," was published in 1994. The book is about her career at the height of Motown music's popularity, and about her conflicts with other Motown singers and managers.

Gladys Knight has a new solo recording out earlier this year, “At Last” (Uni/MCA). Knight began her singing career at age 4. Since that modest start, she went on to lead one of the most successful vocal soul groups in America, "Gladys Knight and The Pips." The group stayed together for 39 years before disbanding.Among, the group's most notable songs include: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," "Neither One of Us," and Midnight Train to Georgia." Knight then launched a solo career.

Gordy and Motown made stars out of musicians and singers including Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson. In 1994 Gordy has published his autobiography, "To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown: An Autobiography."

Otis Williams was the founder of The Temptations, whose smooth five-part harmonies and synchronized dance steps made them one of the hottest of Motown's super groups. Their hits included "My Girl," "Just My Imagination," and "Pappa Was a Rolling Stone."