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Wildfires prompt further air quality advisories into the summer

With dozens of fires burning across Oregon and neighboring states, environmental officials are issuing continued air quality advisories.

Henry Winkler won an Emmy Award for playing acting teacher Gene Cousineau on the HBO series <em>Barry</em>.

Fresh Air Weekend: Henry Winkler; Rob Delaney

Winkler discusses his decades-long acting career, from "The Fonz" to Barry. Ken Tucker reviews Billie Eilish's debut album. Delaney talks about wrapping up Catastrophe and working through grief.

Joel (left) and Ethan Coen wrote and directed <em>Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men</em>, <em>A Serious Man</em> and <em>True Grit.</em> Their latest film is<em> Inside Llewyn Davis.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: The Coen Brothers And 'Anchorman 2'

Filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen talk about the writing process, Inside Llewyn Davis, disobedient cats, and the cult status of their 1998 film The Big Lebowski. And Adam McKay and Will Ferrell discuss Ron Burgundy, making movies, and that epic 'stache.

Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) is back in service at the Banks' home in <em>Mary Poppins Returns,</em> a sequel to the 1964 classic.

Fresh Air Weekend: Emily Blunt; Lucas Hedges

Blunt discusses playing the iconic nanny in Mary Poppins Returns. Ken Tucker recommends two new Christmas albums. Hedges stars as a teenager in rehab for opioid addiction in Ben is Back.

"You can't be a novelist, you can't be a creative person, if you are so cynical about the world that everything you say and write is negative," says novelist James McBride. He won the 2013 National Book Award for his novel <em><a href="https://www.npr.org/books/titles/189562779/the-good-lord-bird">The Good Lord Bird.</a> </em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Writer James McBride; RuPaul

McBride's novel, Deacon King Kong, takes place in 1969, in a Brooklyn housing project similar to the one he grew up in. The host of RuPaul's Drag Race says loving yourself is a cornerstone of success.

Fresh Air Weekend: Kerry Washington; Stephen King

Washington explains how her Little Fires Everywhere role resembles her own mom. King understands why fans have said the COVID-19 pandemic feels like living inside one of his horror novels.

Bradley Cooper plays Jackson Maine, a musician struggling with addiction, in <em>A Star Is Born.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Bradley Cooper; Samin Nosrat

Cooper learned to sing, direct and talk deeply for A Star Is Born. James Beard award-winning food writer and chef Samin Nosrat demystifies great tastes in her Netflix series, Salt Fat Acid Heat.

Fresh Air Weekend: Wildlife 'Dynasties'; The Neuroscience Of Addiction

The BBC series Dynasties examines the social lives of five animal species. Ken Tucker reviews new albums by Steve Gunn and Michael Chapman. Judith Grisel discusses the biological basis of addiction.

Jim Hall performs at the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival.

Fresh Air Remembers Jazz Guitarist Jim Hall

The guitarist, composer and arranger died in his sleep Tuesday at 83. Hall was known for a subtle, lyrical playing style, a gift for innovation and collaborations with a host of talented musicians in a career that stretched more than seven decades. Hear an interview from 1989.

Roxane Gay is a novelist and short story writer<em>.</em> Her previous books include <em>Bad Feminist, Difficult Women</em> and<em> An Untamed State.</em> She teaches English at Purdue University.

Fresh Air Weekend: Roxane Gay And Sherman Alexie

This weekend we talk with the authors of two new memoirs: Gay's Hunger is the book "she wanted to write the least." And Alexie's You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is about growing up on a reservation.

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