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As listeners vote in our online poll for the year's best music, All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen sees three emerging trends: more bands from Canada, more bands from Sweden and an obsession with animals.

Josh Brolin, who plays laconic Llewelyn Moss in the much-praised new Coen Brothers thriller No Country for Old Men, talks about his appetite for surprising characters and working with the filmmaking brothers.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in the rural interior of Central Florida during the 1960s and '70s. Her memoir evokes a land of perfect citrus, and the cruel costs of its harvest.

Playwright Martin McDonagh makes audiences laugh — and makes them uncomfortable about what they're laughing at. He's had hits on London's West End and Broadway. Now, the Irish writer is set to make a new audience squirm — and chuckle — as his screenwriter-director debut, In Bruges, opens in U.S. theaters.

Recorded in 2018 but only now seeing daylight, it's the prolific drummer's first release in years at the head of his expressive and enduring Fellowship Band.

Scott Rudin knows a thing or two about making great films. His name is attached to two of the five movies competing for this year's Best Picture Oscar: He's the executive producer of There Will Be Blood and the producer of No Country for Old Men.

Blogs can rocket ordinary people into sudden notoriety and fame as some book and talent agents trawl blogland to find the next big thing. Dawn Meehan, a stay-at-home mom, started blogging about the everyday rigors of family life and got thousands of readers and a book deal.

Denzel Washington directs and stars in the new film The Great Debaters, inspired by the true story of Wiley College's winning debate team of the early 1930s. The film also stars Forest Whitaker.

The acerbic comedy about an unexpected teen pregnancy was recently nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay. Diablo Cody, the film's screenwriter, talks about her writing process, her inspiration and her memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper.

Executive producer and actor Jeff Garlin and actress Susie Essman discuss the hit HBO comedy series. Garlin plays Larry David's affable best friend and agent. Essman plays Garlin's wife — with a no-nonsense attitude and a foul mouth. This interview originally aired on Sept. 6, 2007.