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Screenwriter Paul Schrader.

Film director and screenwriter Paul Schrader. His screenwriting credits include "Taxi Driver" and "The Last Temptation of Christ." Schrader's directing credits include "Hard Core," "Light of Day," "American Gigolo" and last summer's film "Patty Hearst." (Rebroadcast. Originally broadcast on September 7 and 8, 1988).

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, September 18, 1989: Interview with Paul Schrader; Commentary on Cheb Khaled; Interview with Ian Frazier; Review CBS's Monday night comedy television shows.
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For Ian Frazier, the Great Plains are a "Giant Time Park."

Writer Ian Frazier. He's known primarily as a writer of humor pieces for The New Yorker magazine. Some of those earlier short humor pieces and essays were collected in two earlier books, Dating Your Mom and Nobody Better, Better than Nobody. His new book, Great Plains, is quite different. It describes a history of the great plains through Frazier's own trips driving 25,000 miles in a criss-cross of the area, and hours spent in the New York's Public Library reading about the great plains.

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