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Psychotherapist Dr. Shirley Glass and Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Glass discusses "the new infidelity crisis." She's studied extramarital affairs since the mid 1970's and has written a new book called NOT Just Friends: Protect Your Relationship from Infidelity and Heal the Trauma of Betrayal. She says that the workplace has become the new breeding ground for extramarital affairs.

Dr. Jerome Groopman and Saudi Arabian-born journalist Faiza Saleh Ambah on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Groopman is a Harvard Medical School Chair and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Journalists Mariane Pearl and Joshua Hammer on this edition of Fresh Air. Marianne Pearl is the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped then killed by militant Islamists in 2002. Before Daniel Pearl was abducted, the Pearls were both foreign correspondents, reporting from Pakistan.

On this edition of Fresh Air, New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer talks about his new book Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds. He describes a country caught between the entrenched ruling elite and its younger, well-educated population who want democracy. And, Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Love and Theft, Bob Dylan's latest.

Paintings have been falling off of walls, a loud and loyal dog has gone missing, a gurgled message is being transmitted by walkie-talkie - strange things are happening all over the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Called upon to investigate these suspicious incidents, young Lemony Snicket collects clues, questions witnesses, and cracks every case. .

Comic book artist and writer Frank Miller and keyboard player and record producer Ray Manzarek on this edition of Fresh Air. Frank Miller transformed Batman into a brooding, tortured vigilante in his remakes of the classic Batman comic: The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

Singer, songwriter, musician, and arranger Barry Manilow is on this edition of Fresh Air.

Singer/songwriters Barry Manilow and Tom Waits on this edition of Fresh Air. Barry Manilow made the pop charts in the 1970s and early 80s with love ballads such as "Mandy," "Looks Like We Made It," "I Write the Songs" and "Copacabana (At the Copa)." Before becoming a singer he was Bette Midler's accompanist and arranger.

Hear author Daniel Mendelsohn, TV critic David Bianculli, and film critic David Edelstein on this edition of Fresh Air. Daniel Mendelsohn's book The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million is about investigating what happened to his great uncle's family. As a child, old Jewish relatives told stories of family members killed in the Holocaust. Mendelsohn undertook a worldwide search for surviving members of his family's town.

Comic Bob Newhart on this archive edition of Fresh Air. He's been a part of the American comedy landscape since 1961 when his debut comedy album The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart became a surprise hit. Since then he's starred in three TV shows, including the Peabody award winning original The Bob Newhart Show, and appeared in numerous films. There's a new Rhino anthology of his classic routines, Something Like This...The Bob Newhart Anthology.

Sari Nusseibeh and linguist Geoff Nunberg are the guests on this edition of Fresh Air. Sari Nusseibeh is the president of and a professor of philosophy at Al-Quds University, the only Arab university in Jerusalem. He has written a new memoir, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life.

Hear journalist Tim Weiner, director/writer Brad Bird, comedian/actor Patton Oswalt, and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz on this edition of Fresh Air. Tim Weiner's new book is Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent did extensive archival research and conducted interviews with CIA insiders, including former chiefs Richard Helms and Stansfield Turner.

Journalist Anne Nivat is the Moscow correspondent for the French paper Liberation. Two years ago, after the Russians denied her press access to Chechnya, she disguised herself as a Chechen peasant woman and snuck across the border. For six months, she followed the war, traveling with the underground rebels and staying with families. Her reports were published in Liberation. Her new memoir is Chienne De Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War in Chechnya.

Film maker Robert Rodriguez on this edition of Fresh Air. He's literally THE man behind the family adventure films Spy Kids and Sky Kids 2. His list of credits include: writer/director/producer/director of photography/production designer/editor/visual effects supervisor/sound designer/re-recording mixer/and composer. His first feature film was El Mariachi which he made in 1993 for $7,000.

Hear interviews with three of the biggest names from this year's Academy Award ceremonies, winner for Best Director for Traffic , Steven Soderbergh, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee and star Michelle Yeoh.

Former war correspondent Aidan Hartley on this edition of Fresh Air. In the 1990s he covered Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo for Reuters. Three of his colleagues were killed by a mob in Somolia rebelling against the presence of U.S. forces, and he witnessed the atrocities in Rwanda.

Actors Morgan Freeman and Tim Roth on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Morgan Freeman is one of the stage and screen's most acclaimed actors for his ability to immerse himself in different roles. He originated the role of the chauffeur in the Broadway production of Driving Miss Daisy. Later he revived the role in the movie version, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and filmmaker Jon Favreau on this edition of Fresh Air. Last year, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovered a manuscript.

AIDS researcher Timothy Wright, his brother, criminologist Richard Wright, and reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn on this edition of Fresh Air. In 1995, Timothy Wright was in Bolivia conducting AIDS-related research. During Mardi Gras festivities, Wright was assaulted and robbed, and suffered a severe brain injury.

Middle East historian David Fromkin on this edition of Fresh Air. David Fromkin is a professor of International Relations, International Law, and Middle Eastern Politics at Boston University. He's also the author of the best selling book, A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East 1914-1922.