Terry Gross

Actor Edward Norton. He co-starring in the new film The Score along with Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando. His first major role was in the 1996 film Primal Fear as a quiet, stuttering altar boy accused of a brutal murder. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal. Norton went on to roles in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flint and Fight Club. He was nominated for an Academy Award again for his role in American History X. He directed and stars in the new film Keeping the Faith.

Sidney Poitier is the leading African-American actor of his generation. He was the first, and so far, the only African American to win the Academy Award for Best Actor which he did in 1963 for his performance in Lilies of the Field. His other films include, The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who Coming to Dinnger, and To Sir, With Love. His autobiography, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography is now out in paperback.

New York Times reporter Steve Erlanger returns to the show to talk about the upcoming trial before the International War Crimes Tribunal of Slobodon Milosevic.

Icelandic film director Baltasar Kormakur has been compared with Spanish film director Almodovar for his debut film, an off-beat comedy, 101 Reykjavik. It set (of course) in Iceland, and is the story of a 28 year-old slacker, his mother, and the flamenco teacher they both fall in love with. The film won the Discovery Award for Best First Film at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. And Kormakur was just named by Variety as one of the Ten Directors to Watch.

Writer and editor Roger Angell has been a fiction editor at The New Yorker for over 40 years. And has written about baseball for the magazine for decades. His pieces about baseball have been collected in four books including Late Innings and The Summer Game. Angell new book is A Pitcher Story: Innings with David Cone (Warner Books). Cone is a celebrated pitcher, a Cy Young Award winner, and one of sixteen men in history to pitch a perfect game. Last year, pitching for the Yankees, Cone experienced his first major slump. Angell chronicles Cone struggle in his book.

Novelist Nick Hornby's new book is How to Be Good a novel about a bitter and sarcastic man who becomes a –do-gooder.— He also the author of the bestseller High Fidelity (which was made into a film starring John Cusack), Fever Pitch, and About a Boy. Hornby is also the pop music critic for The New Yorker.

Writer David Hajdu is the author of the new book, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina. (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux). The book focuses on the early 1960s when the four of them changed the nature of popular music. Hajdu is also the author of the award-winning biography, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn. Hajdu also writes for The New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair.

Andrew Kromah lives and works in Sierre Leone. The country has been rated the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. For eight years now Kromah has run an independent radio station (KISS-FM) in Freetown and has reported on the rebels and government. Each week, as Mr. Owl he investigates local corruption. Twice his building has been burned down. During the 1996 election there, Kromah and his staff were forced to broadcast from the bush to escape injury.

Jay Winik's new book, a bestseller, is April 1865: The Month That Saved America (HarperCollins). He writes that April 1865 is a month that could have unraveled the American nation. Instead it saved it. During that month the war ended with Lee surrender, Lincoln was assassinated, and the rebuilding of the nation began. Winik is a senior scholar at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal.

An interview with composer Philip Glass by his cousin Ira Glass, the host of This American Life. The conversation was recorded on-stage in Chicago in 1999. Beginning next week Philip Glass is the featured composer at the Lincoln Center Festival (July 10-27) where his newest opera collaboration, White Raven premieres. Ira Glass was just named America's best radio host by Time magazine.