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Day to Day Countess of Culture Jessica Seigel visits psychiatrist Justin Frank to get professional help for her voting anxiety. Frank is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He's also the author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President — an unflattering psychological profile of the nation's chief executive.

As part of the first cast of Saturday Night Live, Dan Aykroyd helped bring the Coneheads and the Blues Brothers to life. We talk with Aykroyd about two new projects: the book Elwood's Blues: interviews with the Blues Legends and Stars, and the upcoming movie Christmas with the Kranks.

It takes 33 pages to list all the recordings of cellist Janos Starker. After 72 years of playing the cello and instructing students from around the world, he has written a memoir. NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with Starker about a life spent in music.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Tarnished Eye by Midwestern writer Judith Guest. Cheuse says the book is a sweetheart of a novel, even though the plot is based around the slaying of an entire family.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Joseph Pickett, editor of Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus. It's a book about the uncommon origins of common words.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Weekend Edition ambassador to the world of kiddie literature, Daniel Pinkwater, about a book written by Arlo Guthrie and illustrated by Alice M. Brock (of Alice's Restaurant fame). The book is called Mooses Come Walking.

Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta visits Alt.Latino to talk about the new documentary about her life. We also talk history, politics and music.

Longtime New Yorker Gay Talese has written the introduction to a new book of photographs of New York that is titled New York: 365 Days. The collection of photos came from The New York Times archive and spans more than a 100 years.

Ian Johnston's new translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey make the epic tales more accessible to an audience less grounded in the classics. But the translations remain true to his poetry.

Children's author Beatrix Potter is the subject of a new movie starring Renee Zellweger. But the film covers only a small chapter in the life of an accomplished woman, whose obsessions included the reproductive habits of mushrooms as well as the life of Peter Rabbit.