NPR’s Terry Gross: inquisitive, incisive... savage? One of media’s best interviewers was interviewed herself on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, and when Fallon asked her, “Do you have any stories where an interview just didn’t go well?” she shared this lovely anecdote:
Though it would be considered extremely bizarre to ask a straight woman if she tried sleeping with women to make sure she was straight, Abby Wambach doesn’t actually seem too annoyed with Terry Gross for asking about her high school boyfriend.
Terry Gross: My guest today is Sarah Miller, whose new book, BISON SELFIES, which she wrote about bison selfies, comes out next week—very timely, as this summer there have been five bison attacks, none of them fatal, I might add, in Yellowstone National Park. Sarah, welcome to Fresh Air.
"People think listening is easy. Listening is hard. It's easy to be distracted by a headache, or worries over a family member who's ill. You have to not allow yourself to be distracted." — NPR's Terry Gross [Seattle Times]
Yum: The Wire's Idris Elba is going to be talking with Fresh Air's Terry Gross today at 3:30pm Eastern. Tributes to the awesome British actor in the comments, please. [NPR]
