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Legal high
Listen to comedian Bill Hicks rant about legalizing pot for a better world and putting an end to the war on drugs.
Jul 10, 2001
"The Stardust Lounge"
Deborah Digges reads from her new book, a chronicle of her son's difficult adolescence and her own efforts to understand, protect and continue loving him.
Jun 26, 2001
"In a Sunburned Country"
Bill Bryson goes Down Under and finds an underdiscovered country with the friendliest inhabitants and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife on the planet.
Jun 19, 2001
"A Million Bubbles"
Hear a live recording of David Sedaris reading a previously unpublished story from his new audiobook "Me Talk Pretty One Day."
Jun 6, 2001
Where the "Girls" are
A new book of essays, interviews and photographs reveals the astonishing scope of girls' lives today.
Read by Jenny, Laura and Martha McPhee Apr 19, 2001
"Being Digital"
The founding director of the MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, explains how computer sytems can be designed to understand us better, not the reverse.
Read by Penn Jillette Apr 10, 2001
"Music Is My Bag"
Meghan Daum, an oboist turned writer, looks back at the peculiar subculture of music school in this essay from her collection "My Misspent Youth."
By Meghan Daum Mar 20, 2001
"Naked"
David Sedaris describes a humiliating bout with obsessive behavior in "A Plague of Tics," from his bestselling essay collection.
By David Sedaris Mar 16, 2001
The Roger Clinton Experience
At a "Bill Clinton for President" benefit in San Francisco in August 1992, Bill's brother gave the performance of his life in the hopes of changing the country.
Read by Greil Marcus Mar 15, 2001
Mixed message
DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid) runs a sound check on your earlobes in his frequency-testing cut-and-paste extravaganza "Metro Mix."
By DJ Spooky Mar 12, 2001
Ed Harris and his labor of love
The actor and director talks about his latest film, on the life of painter Jackson Pollock.
Mar 1, 2001
Report from ground zero
Journalist Stephan Cox speaks with Salon's Middle East correspondent, Flore de Prineuf, about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Feb 27, 2001
Hey, chinbeard! Hang up and ride
Fed up with cellphone users on public transit, a lone stranger fights back.
Rant by Cary Tennis Feb 26, 2001
A swash of restrictions
Stephan Cox speaks with NARAL's Erica Pelletreau about why President Bush reinstated the abortion "gag rule," what other restrictions to expect and why Roe vs. Wade will still stand four years from now.
Interview by Stephan Cox Feb 8, 2001
Stiller crazy after all these years
Jerry Stiller, well known for his role as Frank Costanza on "Seinfeld," tells how he met his wife, playwright Anne Meara, in 1953.
Feb 2, 2001
Monkey business
In "My Life With the Chimpanzees" Jane Goodall recalls a childhood experience that inspired her interest in the wild kingdom.
Read by Jane Goodall Jan 30, 2001
Obsessed!
Peter L. Bernstein traces the history of gold from alchemy to Fort Knox and beyond, and tells the stories of the greedy and the vain who could not resist its lure.
Read by Eric Conger Jan 26, 2001
Make policy, not war
Robert Housman, former U.S. assistant director of strategic planning, and Dave Fratello, author of California's treatment-not-jail initiative, discuss the war on drugs.
Moderated by Stephan Cox Jan 25, 2001
Don't blame the geeks
Scientist Jonathan Koomey says Internet companies are not responsible for California's energy crisis.
Interview by Stephan Cox Jan 23, 2001
The castaway speaks
Listen to behind-the-scene excerpts of Michael Sragow's interview with Tom Hanks.
  Jan 12, 2001
"I Have a Dream"
Hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963 at the March on Washington.
Jan 12, 2001
Words and wars
The late poet Stephen Spender speaks with Dick Cavett about poetry and politics in a Paris Review interview.

Jan 4, 2001

When we're going to be there
In Chris Colin's essay from "Salon.com's Wanderlust" he takes his future children on a future drive, careful to micromanage their impressions along the way.
Read by Chris Colin Jan 2, 2001
England's decadent delights
In Douglas Cruickshank's essay from "Salon.com's Wanderlust," he samples the good life with Mariah Carey, clay pigeons and single malt scotches at a luxurious English castle hotel.
Read by Douglas Cruickshank Jan 2, 2001
Feminism isn't dead
Two activists read from their new book, "Manifesta," and imagine what it would be like if the women's movement had never happened.
Read by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards Dec 18, 2000
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