On the next Fresh Air – Ru Paul who brought drag into the mainstream with his reality competition series RuPaul’s Drag Race—which just started a new season.   We’ll hear about how he first starting dressing in drag, and the significance of drag in his life and in our culture.  Also – a tribute to jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, who died Friday at the age of 81. Join us.

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(Photo: McCoy Tyner - Joe Mabel / CC BY-SA 3.0)

On the next Fresh Air, Terry talks with writer James McBride, known for his memoir The Color of Water. His pre-Civil War novel, the Good Lord Bird, is being adapted into a new Showtime series. And he has a new novel, Deacon King Kong, set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969, like the one he grew up in. Join us.

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(Photo: James McBride is also the author of The Color of Water and won the National Book Award for Fiction for The Good Lord Bird. He's shown above in Paris on Sept. 23, 2015 - Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images/via NPR)

On the next Fresh Air, journalist and biographer Robert Caro talks about unearthing the details of political deal-making to understand the nature of political power. Caro spent decades researching the careers of President Lyndon Johnson and New York City power-broker Robert Moses. His memoir Working is out in paperback. Join us.

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(Photo: Robert Caro - Steve Inskeep/NPR)

For half a century, a Swiss company has sold encryption technology to governments around the world.   But what leaders of those countries didn’t know was that the firm was partially owned by the CIA, which was using the devices and software to steal state secrets.  On the next Fresh air, a talk with journalist Greg Miller, of the Washington Post about this astonishing story. Join us.

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(Photo: Washington Post reporter Greg Miller)