Terry Gross

Editor and writer Walter Kirn's new novel Up in the Air (Doubleday) is about 35 year-old Ryan Bingham, a well-traveled business man who has a goal of accumulating one million miles in his frequent flyer account. Kirn is the literary editor for GQ and a contributing editor to Time and Vanity Fair. His fiction and non-fiction work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. He also the author of two other novels, and a selection of short stories.

Film critic Henry Sheeham reviews the new Stephen Spielberg film A.I.

We remember Cuban composer, arranger and bandleader Chico Oarrill. He died on Wednesday. He was 79.