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- Todaynarrative43 min9-min read
Jordan Firstman captures the highs and lows of being a ‘Club Kid’
Fresh Air devotes a full hour to Jordan Firstman, the actor-writer-director whose debut feature 'Club Kid' premiered at Cannes and opens in theaters this Friday. The conversation lands because Firstman treats the film as autobiography-adjacent confession: a story about a burned-out New York club promoter forced to grow up when the 10-year-old son he never knew he had shows up at his door, told by a man who admits he's still figuring out how to leave the party himself.
- Yesterdaynarrative44 min8-min read
The skyrocketing cost of elder care
Fresh Air host Tonya Mosley interviews veteran aging journalist Paula Span about America's deepening long-term care crisis: family caregivers are spending nearly 60% more out of pocket than five years ago, Medicare doesn't cover the daily help most older people need, and the oldest baby boomers are turning 80 just as nursing homes shed beds and the care workforce shrinks. The conversation lands because Span pairs hard numbers with lived experience — including her own family's caregiving — and points toward practical, if imperfect, fixes.
- 2 days agointerview45 min8-min read
John Turturro could pick your pocket (if he wanted to)
John Turturro joins Terry Gross on Fresh Air to discuss his new film The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, in which he plays Harry, an analog-era thief made obsolete by technology. The conversation moves from the craft of pickpocketing to Turturro's deeply personal history as caregiver to his schizophrenic brother, his breakthrough performances in Five Corners and Miller's Crossing, his work with Spike Lee, his turn as John Stone in The Night Of, and a Washington Post op-ed about his grandmother's death from a botched abortion.
- 5 days agonarrative49 min8-min read
Best Of: Making ‘La Bola Negra’ / 'New Yorker' cartoonists lament their kitchens
This episode of Fresh Air Weekend, hosted by Tonya Mosley, features Spanish filmmaking duo Los Javis — Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrosi — discussing 'La Bola Negra,' their epic adaptation of Federico García Lorca's unfinished, four-page play about persecuted gay men in Spain; plus Justin Chang's review of Lee Chang-dong's Korean drama 'Possible Love' and Terry Gross's conversation with New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein about their graphic memoir 'The Two Saddest Kitchens.'
- 5 days agonarrative45 min7-min read
Kazuo Ishiguro on ‘Klara and the Sun’
This Fresh Air episode (guest-hosted by David Bianculli) rebroadcasts Terry Gross's rich 2021 conversation with Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro about 'Klara and the Sun' — its AI narrator, gene-edited 'lifted' children, and Ishiguro's own Nagasaki childhood and hitchhiking youth — before film critic Justin Chang delivers a skeptical review of the new Spanish queer epic 'La Bola Negra.'
- 6 days agonarrative44 min7-min read
Who benefits when massive AI data centers come to town?
Fresh Air host Tanya Mosley talks with Brookings Institution senior fellow Darrell West about the explosive political backlash against AI data centers, how local fights over land, power, and water have become a national, bipartisan story in the midterm elections, and why this opposition may be the beginning of a broader grassroots revolt against big tech's power.
- 1 weeks agonarrative44 min5-min read
How the killing of Jordan Neely on the NYC subway divided America
A single incident on a New York City subway — the death of Jordan Neely in a chokehold by Daniel Penny — becomes a national flashpoint, exposing deep fractures in American society around race, mental health, urban safety, and the erosion of public trust in institutions. Journalist Anand Giridharadas’s investigation reveals how narratives are weaponized, systems fail, and individuals are mythologized in the aftermath.
- 1 weeks agonarrative44 min5-min read
Los Javis filmmakers fight fascism and homophobia with ‘La Bola Negra’
Spanish filmmakers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, known as Los Javis, discuss their critically acclaimed film La Bola Negra, inspired by four surviving pages of a lost play by Federico García Lorca. The film interweaves three timelines to explore the hidden histories of queer men in Spain across generations, from the 1930s Civil War to the present, reclaiming a silenced legacy through poetic storytelling and historical reimagining.
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