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Hear professor Linda J. Bilmes, economist Joseph Stiglitz, and rock critic Ken Tucker on this edition of Fresh Air. Linda J. Bilmes is professor of public finance at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She has collaborated on a new book with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist who teaches at Columbia University: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict.

Hear comedian and actress Sarah Silverman and British food critic Tom Parker Bowles on this edition of Fresh Air. The second season of The Sarah Silverman Show begins tomorrow on Comedy Central (Wednesdays @ 10:30). Silverman's one-woman off-Broadway show, Jesus is Magic, was made into a film. Silverman's satire is ribald and rude, controversial, and almost nothing is off limits, including jokes about September 11th, AIDS, and the Holocaust.

Hear conservative William F. Buckley, musicians Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead, on this edition of Fresh Air. William F. Buckley died on Wednesday. Buckley is often cited with bringing conservative thought into the mainstream in liberal post-war America. He was the founder of the conservative magazine the National Review and for many years, the magazine's editor-in-chief. His popularity as a public intellectual increased through his television appearances, particularly as the host of the long-running television show Firing Line.

Country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs and Khmer Rouge survivor Arn Chorn-Pond on this edition of Fresh Air. Ricky Skaggs has a new album out called The Three Pickers, and it features Skaggs playing along with Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson.

The HBO hit series Sex and the City, begins a new season July 21st. On this edition of Fresh Air, we'll hear from two people involved with the show: actress Sarah Jessica Parker and writer and executive producer Michael Patrick King. Sarah Jessica Parker was just nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She's been acting for most of her life, including playing Annie on Broadway, the young bimbo in L.A. Story, and a fed-up fiancee in Honeymoon in Vegas.

Hear investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Pushing Daisies producers Barry Sonnenfeld and Bryan Fuller, and book critic Maureen Corrigan on this edition of Fresh Air. Seymour Hersh is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine. He has written in depth about the Bush administration, and his article in this week's edition ("Shifting Targets") is about the administration's shift in position on Iran - a redefining of the war in Iraq as a strategic battle between the US and Iran.

Writer Alec Wilkinson and an archive interview with William Maxwell on this edition of Fresh Air. Alec Wilkinson remembers his friend and mentor William Maxwell, who died Monday at the age of 91. Wilkinson is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and has been there since 1980.

Hear Washington Post reporters Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher, and psychologist Philip Zimbardo on this edition of Fresh Air. Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher's new book is Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. The book grew out of their article for the Post, "The Lonely Stand of Clarence Thomas".

Hear authors Stephen Walt and Abraham Foxman, and beer expert Michael Jackson, on this edition of Fresh Air. Stephen Walt is the co-author (along with John Mearsheimer) of the book The Israel Lobby. The book grew out of their controversial article, which was published in the London Review of Books in March 2006. The two examine the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy and argue that support for Israel cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds.

Fresh Air guest host Barbara Bogaev talks with actor Michael C. Hall from HBO's Six Feet Under. He plays David Fisher, the gay brother who co-runs a funeral home on the show. He's currently starring as Billy Flynn, an oily attorney in the Broadway revival of Chicago. James Earl Jones, of the astounding voice, talks about his memoir. And you'll hear a review of the foreign film Mostly Martha.

Hear comedian and actor Garry Shandling, rock critic Ken Tucker, and book critic Maureen Corrigan on this edition of Fresh Air. Garry Shandling's 1992-1998 HBO series, The Larry Sanders Show, a parody of talk shows, is now out in a four-DVD box set.

Author Edna Gurewitsch and singer Eric Burdon on this edition of Fresh Air. Edna Gurewitsch is the wife of the late Dr. David Gurewitsch, who was Eleanor Roosevelt's personal physician from 1945 to her death in 1962. Gurewitsch has written a new book about the close personal relationship that developed between her husband and the former first lady, Kindred Souls: Eleanor Roosevelt and David Gurewitsch, 1945-1962.

Rhythm and blues singer Bobby Womack and Ray Charles on this soul music edition of Fresh Air. Bobby Womack's R&B and pop hits include "It's All Over Now," "Lookin' For A Love," and "That's The Way I Feel About Cha."

Hear baseball enthusiast Zack Hample and journalist Malcolm MacPherson on this edition of Fresh Air. Zack Hample's new book is entitled Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks. Hample is an obsessive baseball fan who has turned his devotion into a career, giving tours of stadiums, appearing on TV and radio, and writing books.

Hear Irish journalist Patrick Cockburn on this edition of Fresh Air. Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. He has been visiting Iraq since 1977. He is the author of the book, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq. His forth-coming book Muqtada: Muqtada A-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq will be published in April.

Playwright and actor Wallace Shawn and actor Andre Gregory on this archival edition of Fresh Air. Shawn and Gregory star in the film Vanya on 42nd St, directed by Louis Malle, screenplay adapted by David Mamet from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. The two also co-wrote and co-starred in the 1981 film, My Dinner with Andre. They have since both worked on many other projects individually in television, theater, and film. Shawn was an obscure playwright until 1981, when his movie, My Dinner With Andre appeared.

Our series on hard rock and heavy metal continues with Robert Plant, the former lead singer of the band Led Zeppelin on this edition of Fresh Air. Robert Plant is an influential pioneer of heavy metal music. Plant co-wrote (with Jimmy Page) one of the most popular and parodied hard rock ballads, "Stairway to Heaven". Led Zeppelin formed in 1968 and broke up in 1980.

Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid and actor Mark Ruffalo on this edition of Fresh Air. Rashid will comment on today's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The attack occurred at a political rally near the capital of Islamabad. News reports indicate that the attacker used a combination of gunfire and a suicide bombing. At least 14 people have died in the assault. Bhutto was pronounced dead at a hospital in Rawalpindi at 6:16 pm. Rashid has published several bestselling novels and also writes for the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Daily Telegraph (London), and other publications. He was born in Lahore and is based in Pakistan.

Novelist Philip Roth on this archive edition of Fresh Air. His book The Human Stain is about a classics professor accused of racism who has a secret about his own ethnic identity. It's just been adapted into a new film starring Anthony Hopkins and Nichole Kidman. The Human Stain won the PENN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Editorial columnist for The New York Times, Nicholas Kirstof. In his recent columns he's been writing about the intelligence officers who disclosed to him that the Bush administration before the war exaggerated the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.