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Author Kevin Conley on this edition of Fresh Air. His book, STUD: Adventures in Breeding, about breeding racehorses is now out in paperback. STUD explores the process of creating champions, from the farms of Kentucky, where studs command a half million a pop, to the horse auctions, where the world's richest people compete for the top yearlings.

Writer Marijane Meaker on this edition of Fresh Air. Her new book is about her two-year affair with the great writer Patricia Highsmith. The two met in the 1950s at a Greenwich Village lesbian bar. Both were writing lesbian pulp novels under pseudonyms. Meaker wrote Spring Fire (1952) under the pen name Vin Packer. It sold 1.5 million copies. She also wrote under the name Ann Aldrich.

Neuroscientist Dr. Samuel Barondes talks about the next generation of antidepressants and singer Rosanne Cash talks about her new album and the recent death of her step mother, June Carter Cash, on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Samuel Barondes is Professor and Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the University of California.

Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki and journalist Susan Orlean on this edition of Fresh Air. Andrew Jarecki's new documentary is Capturing the Friedmans. It's about a seemingly normal Long Island, New York family. At Thanksgiving dinner, police shatter the front door with a battering ram and arrest the father and son for allegations of pedophilia and child molestation.

Editorial columnist for The New York Times, Nicholas Kirstof. In his recent columns he's been writing about the intelligence officers who disclosed to him that the Bush administration before the war exaggerated the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer on this edition of Fresh Air. He's the author of the new book, All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. It's about the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that put an end to democratic rule, and in turn led the way for the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Writer Laura Hillenbrand and Random House editor Jonathan Karp on this edition of Fresh Air. Laura Hillenbrand is the author of the best selling book, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, about the horse who became a racetrack sensation in the 1930s.

Music writer Peter Guralnick, Sun Studios founder Sam Phillips (who died last night in Memphis at age 80), and guitarist and record producer Scotty Moore on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Music writer Peter Guralnick, in part one of his biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, tells much of the story of Elvis' life and people who knew him then.

On this edition, Fresh Air pays tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80. Terry Gross speaks with music writer Peter Guralnick and songwriter and singers Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. Peter Guralnick is the author of a two volume biography of Elvis Presley: Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love.

On this edition of Fresh Air, the focus is the work of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and the new film based on his life and work, American Splendor. Harvey has been described as "working-class Everyman," and "first-class curmudgeon."

Law professor Noah Feldman talks about democracy in Islamic countries and writer/director Eitan Gorlin talks about his new film, The Holy Land on this edition of Fresh Air. Noah Feldman is a professor of the New York University School of Law with a doctorate in Islamic thought from Oxford. Until recently he was head of the constitutional team with the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq.

Wall Street Journal reporters Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller and comic Bill Maher on this edition of Fresh Air. Rebecca Smith is a national energy reporter and John R. Emshwiller is a senior national correspondent who covers white-collar crime.

Actress Hope Davis on this edition of Fresh Air. She most recently she played the daughter of Jack Nicholson in the movie About Schmidt. Her other roles include Mumford, Next Stop Wonderland, Flatliners, and her first major role Daytrippers.

Actor and comedian Denis Leary and writer Daniel Harris on this edition of Fresh Air. This Sunday, Leary gets roasted by Comedy Central. He's also starring in the new film The Secret Lives of Dentists. Last year, he starred in the ABC comedy series, The Job.

Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens and remembering dancer and actor Gregory Hines on this edition of Fresh Air. Gary Stevens has won three Kentucky Derbys, two Preakness Stakes and three Belmont Stakes. Now 40 years old, he's been riding professionally since he was sixteen years old.

Scottish writer/director/actor Peter Mullan and writer/director Niki Caro on this edition of Fresh Air. Peter Mullan's new feature film The Magdalene Sisters is based on the real life laundries run by the Sisters of the Magdalene Order in Ireland which opened near the end of the 19th century.

Lyme Disease expert, Dr. Jonathan Edlow and chef Jeremiah Tower on this edition of Fresh Air. Dr. Jonathan Edlow is the author of the new book Bull's Eye: Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease. In the book he chronicles the emergence of the disease, how scattered clues led to the cause - bacterium Borelia burgdorferi, and then to the deer tick that spread it.

Ian Katz, the features editor at the Guardian in London, and Baghdad blogger Salam Pax on this edition of Fresh Air. Katz traced and verified the identity of the Baghdad blogger for the Guardian. Salam Pax is a pseudonym - a combination of the Arabic and Latin words for peace.

Financial investigative reporter Alex Berenson and writer, actor, director, and comedian Harry Shearer on this edition of Fresh Air. Alex Berenson is a financial investigative reporter for The New York Times.

British film director Michael Winterbottom and science writer David Quammen on this edition of Fresh Air. Michael Winterbottom's films include Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, and Wonderland.