All I did was ask : conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists / [print]
Terry Gross.
- first edition.
- New York : Hyperion, (c)2004.
- xxiii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
Don't do it Like a skinny boxer Being square A man's voice Lift everything up Erotic cheese and crackers A new gift The craft itself Use the disadvantage Right in the gut You will not find the word "lesbian" / Ann Bannon -- We all die A family courtesy Make sense of it later Bootzilla twenty-seven hours a day Dissonance In the junkyard Alive in a coffin A difficult place to grow up I never told jokes Beauty gone berserk Kissing and licking boots To iron a shirt So what? / Larry Rivers -- Not to think Send the salami Like raw meat A little out of whack The way people look It gets harder Mom, Dad, I want to be a tap dancer Nothing else would matter A large feminine side Too much for you to take Dramatic beats Stop acting In that hurricane A place of protection A fraudulent angel Nicolas Cage -- Chris Rock -- John Updike -- Johnny Cash -- Charlie Haden -- Mary Karr -- Andre Dubus and Andre Dubus III -- Uta Hagen -- Michael Caine -- Mickey Spillane -- Walter Mosley -- Mario Puzo -- George Clinton -- Bootsy Collins -- Nick Hornby -- Grandmaster Flash -- Paul Schrader -- Jodie Foster -- Albert Brooks -- Divine -- Mary Woronov -- Joyce Johnson -- Sonny Rollins -- Hal David -- Isabella Rossellini -- Dennis Hopper -- Chuck Close -- Frank Stella -- Conan O'Brien -- Eric Clapton -- Steven Tyler and Joe Perry -- Gene Simmons -- Samuel L. Jackson -- Dustin Hoffman -- James Baldwin -- Carol Shields -- Maurice Sendak.
The award-winning host of National Public Radio's Fresh Air presents a selection of her interviews with some of the most celebrated actors, musicians, writers, artists, and comics of the day.