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TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. After pledging to never make an album of Christmas songs, my guest, roots and rockabilly musician JD McPherson, has broken that promise.
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Many of the best of this year's books were graced with humor and distinguished by deep dives into American identity. It was also a very good year for deceased authors whose posthumously published books were so much more than mere postscripts to their careers.
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On the next Fresh Air, we talk with Samuel Schwartz, author of No one at the Wheel.
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