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Mary Morris on Traveling as a Woman.

Travel writer Mary Morris. Her new book, Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone, recounts her travels, alone, through Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, and what it means for a woman to travel alone. Her earlier works include Vanishing Animals & Other Stories and The Bus of Dreams.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 11, 1988: Interview with Nicholas Van Hoffman; Review of Woody Herman and The Thundering Herd's album "The Thundering Herds, 1945-1947"; Interview with Mary Morris;…
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Reissue of Woody Herman's Big Band Recordings.

Jazz Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a reissue of the post-World War II work of Woody Herman and The Thundering Herd, one of the best-known big bands. There were almost half a dozen version of The Thundering Herd, but it was the configuration featured on this album that made Herman a household name.

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"The Street" Looks Real, But Feels Phony.

Television Critic David Bianculli reviews "The Street," a new cop show shot on location in Newark, New Jersey. The series, produced by the superstation WWOR, is videotaped like a documentary, a feature intended to enhance the realism.

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Mary Morris on Writing, Traveling the World, and Pregnancy

The travel writer has a new book called "Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail." She took the trip five years ago as reforms were beginning to be implemented in the Soviet Union, and before the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square and the Eastern European revolutions. She's particularly interested in what it's like to travel abroad as a woman alone.

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Kate Simon on Her Life and Career.

Author Kate Simon. Simon is best known for her travel books (Kate Simon's Paris, New York: Places and Pleasures) and for her two vivid memoirs of coming of age in the New York City of the 1920s and 30s. The first, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood, portrays the immigrant neighborhoods just after World War I. In the second, A Wider World: Portraits in an Adolescence, Simon recalls her tumultuous adolescence as she discovered the world beyond the neighborhoods of her youth.

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