'Bloom County' And Opus The Penguin Return After A 25-Year Hiatus Comic strip creator Berkeley Breathed tells Fresh Air's Sam Briger that a 2008 letter from author Harper Lee inspired him to re-launch his famous strip on Facebook. It's now called Bloom County 2015.
Donna Karan On Motherhood, Fashion And Designing The Perfect Pair Of Jeans When Donna Karan started her brand in 1984, she thought it would be "a little company." Four decades later, she looks back on her life, her legacy and leaving her company. Her memoir is My Journey.
'Son Of Saul' Brings Viewers To The Heart Of The Nazi Death Machine At Auschwitz Son of Saul, set in a Nazi death camp in 1944, won the Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Director László Nemes and star Géza Röhrig discuss the film with Fresh Air's Terry Gross.
Do Pacific Northwesterners Have An Accent? Do Pacific Northwesterners have an accent and what does it sound like? Listener Molly in Tacoma asked that question as part of KUOW's Local Wonder... Deborah Wang
Music For Your Epic Quest The soundtrack to your life could be a dirge, monotonous and dreary, or it could be a triumphant orchestra, setting you off on a heroic quest. Either way, the music you listen to can do more than set your mood — it can tell your story. Jeremy Richards
Swing Ladies Swing: Bea Wain Songbird Bea Wain first gained fame in the 1930s as the featured singer with Larry Clinton and his orchestra. She could swing through ballads, blues, and jazz; her voice covers the spectrum of popular music. Amanda Wilde
Music Sparks Memories The Pacific Northwest found itself in a unique position during WWII. With its aviation and maritime industries and geographic proximity to the Pacific and Japan, the Puget Sound region quickly became a nexus of wartime activity. Amanda Wilde
Seattle becomes a literary hotspot this week with the AWP Conference “It's an opportunity to hear a lot of blockbuster authors read their work, as well as to attend panels on the craft of writing.” Kim Malcolm
Hear it again: The untold history of migrant labor in the PNW Author and historian Megan Asaka tells the story of early migrant laborers in her book, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City." Hans Anderson