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Entertainment expert Neal Gabler on this edition of Fresh Air. His new book is Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination. Gabler was given complete access to the Disney archives to write a biography that begins when Disney was just a twinkle in his father's eye and ends at the entrance to the Walt Disney mausoleum.

Novelists Anita and Kiran Desai and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz on this edition of Fresh Air.

This audio is like an informal writing clinic, as you listen to these writers talk about their lives, experiences and, of course, their writing. While you are listening, Terry Gross draws out from these great writers the answers to your questions, just as the query begins to form in your own head.

Rhythm and blues legend Smokey Robinson and the great songwriting trio Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland on this edition of Fresh Air. Robinson has a new album called Timeless Love. Robinson sings hits from the American songbook, including "I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby)", "Night and Day", and "More Than You Know." William "Smokey" Robinson recorded dozens of top 40 hits for the Motown label as a solo artist and with The Miracles.

Actor, producer, director Danny DeVito on this edition of Fresh Air. Danny DeVito first became known to audiences for his role as Louie on the TV comedy Taxi, and he's gone on to be involved in a number of great movies. He directed War of the Roses, Hoffa, and Death to Smoochy, and produced Erin Brockovich and Pulp Fiction, among others.

TV producers David Shore, Mitchell Hurwitz, and Michael Patrick King and actress Lisa Kudrow on this edition of Fresh Air. Shore and Foster are from the FOX T-V series House. The show is nominated for 4 Emmys. The television awards show airs this Sunday night. Shore is the executive producer. David Foster, M.D. is the medical consultant and writes for the series. House, which airs Tuesday evenings, casts a medical malady as the villain.

Actor John C. Reilly on this edition of Fresh Air. John C. Reilly co-stars in the hit film Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby with Will Farrell. It's soon out on video. Reilly is probably best known for his association with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson in the films Hard 8, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia.

Novelist Hisham Matar, journalist S. V. Date, and book critic Maureen Corrigan, on this edition of Fresh Air. Isham Matar's semi-autobiographical debut novel In the Country of Men was short-listed for the 2006 Mann Booker Prize.

Journalists Bob Woodward, Mark Halperin, and John Harris, on this edition of Fresh Air. First, Bob Woodward, whose new book is State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, a follow-up to his previous books, Bush at War and Plan of Attack. In the new book, Woodward examines how the Bush administration has avoided telling the truth about the Iraq war to the public, to congress, and to itself. Woodward is an assistant managing editor of the Washington Post.

Rory Stewart is a British diplomat, journalist and former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Tights Policy at Havard's Kennedy School of Government. At the age of 29, following the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Stewart, walked alone across the country. The sometimes harrowing journey took him two years. He wrote about it in the memoir The Places in Between. Then, after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Stewart was appointed a provincial governor.

Because Audible was not granted digital audio rights for today's Fresh Air broadcast, we bring you a great archive episode featuring the great singer and pianist Ray Charles, musician Quincy Jones, and saxophonist Hank Crawford. Ray Charles died June 10, 2004, at the age of 73. He was about to go back on tour, but died of complications of liver disease.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg and Army chaplain Ran Dolinger on this edition of Fresh Air. Linguist and Fresh Air commentator Geoff Nunberg's new book is Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show. Nunberg teaches at UC Berkeley's School of Information.

Because Audible was not granted rights to today's broadcast of Fresh Air, we present a great archive interview with singer, songwriter, and guitar player Robbie Fulks. His newest CD is called Georgia Hard. Fulks also has an XM Satellite Radio show called Secret Country on Channel 12.

Writer Robert Sullivan and journalist Bill Minutaglio on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Sullivan's new book is called Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a lot of bad motels, a moving van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, my wife, my mother-in-law, two kids, and enough coffee to kill an elephant. It's a chronicle of his family's cross country trips from Oregon to New York. He's joined by his two children Louise and Sam.

Journalist Juliet Eilperin on her new book Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives.

Plus book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Theft: A Love Story by Australian writer and twice winner of the Booker Prize Peter Carey.

Songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen on his new volume of poetry, Book of Longing.

Journalist Daniel Okrent on this edition of Fresh Air. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the first Public Editor, or ombudsman, for The New York Times. His new book, Public Editor #1: The Collected Columns (with Reflections, Reconsiderations, and Even a Few Retractions) of the First Ombudsman of The New York Times chronicles his tenure and provides a behind the scenes look at America's most respected newspaper. Note: Because of rights issues, this episode is 20 minutes long.

Writer/director Richard Linklater and documentary stars Bill Resler and Devon Crosby Helms on this edition of Fresh Air. Richard Linklater's new film, A Scanner Darkly, is based on the book by Philip K. Dick. It's about drug addiction, paranoia, and surveillance. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and Keanu Reeves. Linklater is a self-taught director whose other films include Slacker, Dazed & Confused, and The School of Rock.

Actor Brian Cox and physician Paul Epstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Emmy award winner Brian Cox will be appearing on the HBO series Deadwood. He's been in over a hundred films and TV shows over the past 40 years. His films include Match Point, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy and Rushmore. He was a regular guest on Frasier, and he won his Emmy for his role as Reichsmarschall Hermann Wilhelm Goering on the TNT channel's movie Nuremberg.

Actor Joseph Cannascoli who played mob captain Vito Spatafore on �The Sopranos�.

John Powers has just returned from The Cannes film festival whre the top prize winner was The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish rebellion against British rule and the country�s subsequent civil war by director Ken Loach.