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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with bluesman Bobby Rush about his new album, Sitting on Top of the Blues.

Jeffrey Epstein Lawsuit Documents Released

Host Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown about the release of documents in a lawsuit related to Epstein's alleged crimes.

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Limericks

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Robutt, Spirit Animal, Love Is Bovine.

"If you think about it, it's almost like Dr. Seuss," Beauty Pill's Chad Clark notes about one of David Berman's lyrics, "if Dr. Seuss had become seriously depressed."

Silver Jews' David Berman Remembered By His Peers, In His Own Words

Beauty Pill's Chad Clark and Wooden Wand's James Toth examine the legacy of David Berman with their favorite lyrics.

When she was growing up, <em>New Yorker</em> culture writer Jia Tolentino attended a Houston megachurch with her family. "The population was extremely white and wealthy, which my family was not," Tolentino says. Her new book is called <em>Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion.</em>

Fresh Air Weekend: Rodney Evans; Jia Tolentino; Gender Neutral Pronouns

Evans' film Vision Portraits explores the work of visually impaired artists. Tolentino worries we're fooling ourselves in the web's Trick Mirror. Geoff Nunberg says we'll get used to singular "they."

Interview With 'Luce' Filmmaker

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Julius Onah, director of the new film Luce, about the movie.

ICE Raids Hit Poultry Processing Plants That Rely On Latino Immigrant Labor

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with anthropologist Angela Stuesse about the use of immigrant labor in poultry farms in the South.

In 'A Pure Heart,' Family And Religion Both Bond And Break

Rajia Hassib's novel wrestles with heavy themes — survivor's guilt, religion, family and revolution — but it's never didactic. It's an honest, engrossing portrait of two very different sisters.

An employee of the U.S. Treasury's Mutilated Currency Division inspects shredded dollar bills to evaluate whether the damaged money should be reimbursed. The division issues an average of $30 million a year to owners of damaged bills.

Cash Back Guarantee: The U.S. Redeems Damaged Bills Because The Dollar Depends On It

The Treasury reviews some 24,000 cases a year and reimburses around $30 million to people whose money has been burned, flooded or otherwise damaged. This service helps underpin the dollar's integrity.

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