Terry Gross

Film director Philip Haas. His newest movie is "Angels & Insects" based on the novella "Morpho Eugenia" by writer A.S. Byatt. Previously, Haas made his feature film debut with "The Music of Chance," adapted from a Paul Auster novel. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is a folk singer who has hopped freights, hitched cross-country, competed in rodeos, toured with Woody Guthrie, and influenced a young Bob Dylan. He's been singing since the late 1940's. He has his first studio album in over twenty-five years, "South Coast." (Red House Records, P.O. Box 4044, St. Paul, MN 55104 1-800-695-4687). (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

Independent film director, writer and editor Mark Rappaport. His newest film is "From the Journals of Jean Seberg," about the actress Jean Seberg. The movie is a "fictitious autobiography" and places Seberg's life and work in a political context of the 1960s. Seberg's life ended in a tragic suicide. She grew up in Iowa, was best known for her role in Jean Luc Godard's "Breathless," and Otto Preminger's "Saint Joan." In the 60s she got involved with the Black Panthers.

John Perry Barlow is the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends civil liberties in cyberspace. Barlow is also a former cattle rancher in Wyoming, and a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is located at 1667 K St. NW, Suite 801, Washington, D.C. 20006-1605.

Singer/songwriter Bonnie Raitt. Her newest release is her first live album, "Road Tested," (Capitol). It's been nominated for a Grammy. But today, Raitt is on Fresh Air to talk about the musicians and performers that inspired her. She'll play recordings by such blues artists as B.B. King, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and Sippie Wallace. Raitt recorded one of McDowell's songs on her new album.

Biographer Arnold Rampersad is professor of Literature at Princeton. His two-volume biography of writer Langston Hughes was praised by critics as one of the best biographies of a black American writer. Rampersad also is the author of a biography of Richard Wright and co-author of tennis star Arthur Ashe's memoir, "Days of Grace. There's a new paperback edition of "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes" edited by Rampersad and David Roessel (Vintage Classics). We'll hear Terry's interview with Rampersad about Langston Hughes.

Terry talks with Stephen Schiff about his work as a screenwriter.

An excerpt of a 09/08/1988 interview with Joey Ramone.

Art historian and curator Mark Rosenthal. He is curator of the new exhibition "Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (Feb 9 - May 12). There's also a companion book to the exhibition, same title, published by Guggenheim. Rosenthal is Curator of Twentieth Century at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and formerly Consultative Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.