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Two reports from Iraq on today's Fresh Air with National Security Correspondent Jon Landay and The New York Times' John Burns. Jon Landay works for the Knight Ridder Newspapers. At the time of the conversation he was about 30 miles from the city of Kirkuk in Northern Iraq. But he's not one of the embedded reporters.

Singer Jerry Butler on this edition of Fresh Air. Jerry ("The Iceman") Butler's 1969 hit, "Only the Strong Survive," is a rhythm and blues classic, and also the title of his new autobiography: Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor. Butler founded the vocal group The Impressions as well as having a successful solo career. His awareness of civil rights led him to politics, and he is serving his fourth term on the Cook County Board of Commissioners in Chicago.

Filmmaker John Waters on this edition of Fresh Air. John Waters's latest film is Cecil B. Demented about an underground filmmaker and his cult following who declare war on bad cinema by kidnapping a starlet and forcing her to star in their own film. Waters other movies include, Pecker about a young amateur photographer who becomes the darling of the New York art world; Cry Baby, a juvenile delinquent love story set in the 1950's, which brought together such performers as Patty Hearst, Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, David Nelson, and Polly Bergen.

Journalist John Burns and Mexican film director Alfonso Cuaron on this edition of Fresh Air. John Burns is the Islamabad Bureau Chief for the New York Times. He will talk about reporting on Pakistan and Afghanistan. In the past, Burns has been posted in China, Bosnia, South Africa, and Russia. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one of them in 1997, for his reporting on the Taliban.

Hear Haitian-born writer Edwidge Danticat, jazz critic Kevin Whitehead, and critic-at-large John Powers on this edition of Fresh Air. Edwidge Danticat was raised in Haiti by her uncle until the age of 12, when she came to New York to live with her parents who had immigrated to the US She's the author of a number of novels, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, and The Dew Breaker, as well as the short-story collection Krik? Krak!.

Hear attorneys Clive Stafford Smith and Captain Pat McCarthy on this edition of Fresh Air. Clive Stafford Smith represents dozens of prisoners held in the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. His new book is Eight O' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay.

Actor Bill Paxton and Charles Mingus' widow, Sue Graham Mingus, on this edition of Fresh Air. Bill Paxton makes his directing debut.

Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides and the Writers Guild Foundation 2002 Film and Television Writers Forum. Eugenides is the author of the novel The Virgin Suicides which was made into a movie. His new novel Middlesex is about a contemporary hermaprodite. Eugenides' fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and Best American Short Stories. Eugenides currently lives in Berlin, Germany.

Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis on this edition of Fresh Air. Head of the National Security Archive Tom Blanton helped research information for The Cuban Missile Crisis. In the book, released documents and top-secret files reveal how close the U.S. came to a nuclear entanglement. In 1987, the National Security Archive filed suit against the U.S. government for failing to produce the documents they requested.

Writer and producer Chris Albertson and performance artist and writer Rhodessa Jones on this edition of Fresh Air. Chris Albertson is considered an authority on blues singer Bessie Smith. His 1971 biography of Smith has been reissued in a new revised and expanded edition. It's called Bessie and it contains new details on Smith's early years, new interview material, and a chapter devoted to responses to the original publication.

Actress Hope Davis on this edition of Fresh Air. She most recently she played the daughter of Jack Nicholson in the movie About Schmidt. Her other roles include Mumford, Next Stop Wonderland, Flatliners, and her first major role Daytrippers.

Filmmaker Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian film. His two documentaries are Dreams Betrayed and Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the Revolution. Together, they explore Iranian filmmaking before and after the 1979 revolution. In Iranian films, male and female characters are not allowed to touch, ever, and women must be veiled at all times. Despite these and other limitations, Iranian cinema has garnered international critical acclaim.

Hear critic-at-large John Powers and Iraqi activist Yanar Mohammed on this edition of Fresh Air. First, John Powers reports back from his trip to the Cannes Film Festival. Then, Yanar Mohammed, the internationally renowned founder of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq. The organization fights to stop atrocities against women and advocates for women's rights.

Hear writer Katha Pollitt and classical-music critic Lloyd Schwartz on this edition of Fresh Air. Pollit's new book is Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories. It's a collection of personal essays. Pollitt is best known for her feminist, left-of-center political commentary, as in her regular column "Subject to Debate" in The Nation, for which she's been writing since 1980.

Hear journalist Laura Rozen, food and wine columnist Russ Parsons, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead on this edition of Fresh Air. Laura Rozen reports on national security and foreign policy from Washington, D.C., as a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a contributor to the Washington Monthly, the Boston Globe, The Economist, the Forward, USA Today, Wired, and other publications.

Writers Nick Hornby and David Hajdu on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Hornby's most recent book was called How to Be Good, a novel about a bitter and sarcastic man who becomes a "do-gooder." He's also the author of the best seller High Fidelity, which was made into a film starring John Cusack, Fever Pitch, and About a Boy.

Writer Max Allan Collins and director Sam Mendes on this edition of Fresh Air. Max Allan Collins' graphic novel Road to Perdition is the basis for the film of the same name. Mickey Spillane said of the novel, "I know mysteries, and I know comics - and Road to Perdition is one great ride!" Collins twice won the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers, True Detective and Stolen Away.

Tom Kelley, general manager of IDEO, on this edition of Fresh Air.

Record producer and musician Don Was on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Was co-founded the funk rock group, "Was (Not) Was." In 1995, he won a Grammy for Producer of the Year. In addition, he's produced a number of albums for Bonnie Raitt, including her Nick of Time album which revived her career, Rolling Stones, Lyle Lovett, Al Green, Iggy Pop, and the B-52's.

Professor and writer Azar Nafisi on this edition of Fresh Air. Nafisi taught English literature at the University of Tehran and Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. She was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil. She left Iran in 1997 and is now a professor at Johns Hopkins University.