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Author Jonathan Franzen joins Fresh Air to discuss his critically acclaimed and award-winning novel, The Corrections. It is a saga about two generations of an American family; the parents and their children.

More than bombs are dropping on Afghanistan. Psychological warfare soldiers are dropping leaflets and broadcasting news and music, hoping to frighten the Taliban and foster civilian support. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on the military's war of words.

A new 3-D database offers researchers unprecedented details of the human brain. NPRs Michelle Trudeau visits the laboratory of the human brain atlas project in California.

Poet Alan Dugan burst on the scene 40 years ago, winning the National Book Award for his very first collection of poems. In Nov., 2001, he won a second time. Dugan talks with host Linda Wertheimer about critics, time and what makes a good poem.

Robert Siegel talks with David Spencer, mission manager for the Mars Odyssey, a spacecraft that's scheduled to begin orbiting Mars tomorrow.

Host Bob Edwards talks with comedian Bill Cosby about his new book, Cosbyology: Essays and Observations from the Doctor of Comedy.

Susan Stamberg's annual Thanksgiving tradition of reading her mother-in-law's recipe for cranberry relish on the air nearly came to an end this year. But patriotic spirit kept it alive.

NPR's Robert Smith follows a group of former eighth graders as they make their first nervous steps into a much bigger world -- high school. Smith's report is the first of a year-long series following students and faculty at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Wash.

Hundreds of artworks were destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center. One man is trying to save what he can.

In the second part of his year-long series on life at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, NPR's Robert Smith looks at the Roughriders' football team and its losing record against better financed, better supported suburban teams.