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2: Poet LI-YOUNG LEE. He's written two volumes of poetry, Rose, (Boa Editions), and The City in Which I Love You, (Boa Editions). LEE's won many awards for his work, including the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He's just completed a memoir about his family's refugee experience in America, The Winged Seed (Simon & Schuster). LEE was born in Indonesia. His parents were from China, where his father had been private physician to Mao. LEE's father became a political prisoner in Indonesia, and escaped. After traveling through Southeast Asia, the family ended up in a small town in Pennsylvania, where his father headed an all-white Presbyterian church. LEE was six years old then. One reviewer writes of the memoir, "a powerful attempt to conquer the past and--with compassion--to sign a truce with it."

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Interesting Women, the new collection of short stories by Andrea Lee.

Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr wonders if American intelligence didn't learn of former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee's suspected espionage for China from the Chinese themselves.

Minnesota native Sunisa Lee is the first Hmong American to make a U.S. Olympic team. Back home, her family and friends are celebrating her huge win with glee.

Film director ANG LEE. He grew up in Taiwan, but studied theater and film production in the United States. His second feature film, "The Wedding Banquet," was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as was his next film, "Eat Drink Man Woman." LEE's films often portray family relationships with poignancy, respect, and a light comic touch. His latest film is "Sense and Sensibility," the film based on the novel by Jane Austen

Her credits include Frozen, Wreck-It Ralphand Zootopia. Now, Jennifer Lee is the first female chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios — oh, and she co-directed the Frozensequel.

A 51-year-old motorist in Searsport, Maine, died in the storm Saturday after a large tree limb fell on his vehicle.

On December 2nd, 1859, abolitionist John Brown met his end at the gallows in Charlestown, Virginia.

John Waters shares his stories of hitch-hiking and WYPR listeners are encouraged to tell theirs when the Baltimore filmmaker joins Dan in Studio A.

The Category 1 storm is predicted to make landfall in the Canadian Maritimes on Saturday.

On the heels of the biggest auto shows of the year, we get a look at industry trends from John Davis of public television's MotorWeek, the nation's…

On the heels of the biggest auto shows of the year, we get a look at industry trends from John Davis of public television's MotorWeek, the nation's…

John Davis of PBS' MotorWeek talks about the top automotive news in our region, including a bill in the General Assembly that would allow Tesla Motors,…

David Willman, who has been covering the Ebola outbreak for the Los Angeles Times, provides an update at the top of the hour. We also hear from Rep. John…

In director Spike Lee's latest film, BlacKkKlansman,John David Washington plays Ron Stallworth, a black police detective who successfully infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on Asian Americans who believe government and media handling of the Wen Ho Lee case exemplifies the power of lingering anti-Asian prejudice in American culture. Activists and civil rights advocates say the stereotype of the 'model minority' quickly melted into the older canard of the Asian American as suspicious, perpetually foreign and potentially disloyal. It's an attitude that worsens whenever there's tension between the U.S. and any Asian country or when an Asian or Asian American is the subject of bad news.

Terence Blanchard received his first Oscar nomination for the BlacKkKlansman score. The 56-year-old jazz trumpeter from New Orleans has been Spike Lee's right-hand composer since Jungle Fever in 1991.

Lee's new film,Chi-Raq, is an adaptation of the Greek comedy Lysistrata, in which women withhold sex to get their men to stop fighting. Critic David Edelstein calls it a "sexy, brash and potent."

As a whole-hearted supporter of local Maryland food and cooking, I not only cherish the food we grow, but I also truly honor the champions of the eat local movement. Chefs like Nancy Longo and Spike Gjerde have been promoting the regional scene for decades, but there is one fellow we would like to single out. And that would be Chef John Shields.