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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.
    July 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.
    June 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.
    June 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    Hear a live recording of David Sedaris reading a previously unpublished story from his new audiobook "Me Talk Pretty One Day."
    June 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 April 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 April 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 March 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 March 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 March 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 March 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.
    March 1, 2001

  • Report from ground zero

    Journalist Stephan Cox speaks with Salon's Middle East correspondent, Flore de Prineuf, about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
    February 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 February 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 February 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.
    February 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 January 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 January 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 January 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 January 23, 2001

  • The castaway speaks

    Listen to behind-the-scene excerpts of Michael Sragow's interview with Tom Hanks.
    By   January 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.
    January 12, 2001

  • Words and wars

    The late poet Stephen Spender speaks with Dick Cavett about poetry and politics in a Paris Review interview.
    By

    January 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 January 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 January 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 December 18, 2000
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