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Florida Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz talks about the challenges facing America and Congress. Actor James Franco talks about his acting and directing career, his debut novel, Actors Anonymous, and his latest film based on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Amy Grace Loyd discusses her new novel, The Affairs of Others. Howard Gardner on why our reliance on smart gadgets may rob us of a sense of identity and even stunt our imaginations.

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Newark mayor and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator from New Jersey Cory Booker discusses his campaign ahead of Wednesday's election. Plus: Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Li...

The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

A wrap-up of the day’s news, with features and interviews about the latest developments in New York City and around the world, from NPR and the WNYC newsroom.

In this episode: The New York City Subway has inspired album artwork for records by The Velvet Underground, Grandmaster Flash, and Billy Joel, among many others. Robert Del Bagno, the curator of a new exhibition at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, talks about subway-related album art. Plus, Latin soul king Joe Bataan tells the story behind his infectious 1968 boogaloo hit "Subway Joe."

Then, Detroit-based indie rock band Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. -- named for the NASCAR hero -- performs songs from its new record The Speed Of Things in the Soundcheck studio. 

And Kevin Barry, the award-winning Irish author of City Of Bohane and a new short story collection Dark Lies The Island shares a few favorite songs for Soundcheck's Pick Three series.

Hear music from the duo, White Canvas, whose world of sound moves between song, avant-garde and improvisation, with vocal lines over guitar-based soundscapes. The title of their record is taken from texts by the Sufi mystic and poet, Jalaluddin Rumi - “There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”  Also, Jocelyn Montgomery (Miranda Sex Garden) and David Lynch arrange music by the 12th-century abbess Hildegard von Bingen. Listen to Montgomery’s sublime renditions from a recording called Lux Vivens.  And more.