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"A Meditation on Loss."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Disappearance: A Map," by Sheila Nickerson, a meditation on loss. (Doubleday).

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, February 28, 1996: Interview with Philip Haas; Review of Sheila Nickerson's book "Disappearance: A Map"; Interview with Ramblin' Jack Elliott; Review of Pauline Alpert's…
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Director Philip Haas.

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)

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Folk Singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

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)

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An Addicting Album.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews Volume 1 of a series called "Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era" featuring pianist Pauline Alpert (Pearl label).

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Accepting the Challenge of the Natural World

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