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COVER STORY
The Suburbs
Kurt Andersen and an all-star line up of writers and
performers tell stories about the place where most of us live--The Suburbs.
 Paul
Rudnick
Kurt talks with Paul Rudnick, the screenwriter of
the new remake of The Stepford Wives-about a town in a Connecticut suburb
where the men have replaced their wives with submissive robots. Rudnick
says that growing up in New Jersey was like growing up in a punch line.
Go to a preview site about The Stepford Wives
 Fountains
of Wayne
Kurt's musical guests sing about love and relationships,
but also about backyard pools, traffic jams and salesmen getting sloshed.
From their latest album, Welcome Interstate Managers, Fountains of Wayne
performs "Hackensack."
Go to Fountains of Wayne's official site
Read a review of Welcome Interstate Managers
 A.M.
Homes
The author A.M. Homes creates
startling and sometimes surreal stories out of the dark twists of life
-- and her chosen territory is often the suburbs. She reads from her darkly
comic novel "Music for Torching" about a marriage on the skids.
Go to the Harper Collins A.M. Homes page
Fountains
of Wayne
The band performs "Utopia Parkway," the
title track off their second album. And Kurt asks them how they came to
write songs about the suburbs.
Michaela
Murphy
Actor and writer Michaela Murphy tells a story from
her extraordinary childhood in the suburbs of Providence, Rhode Island.
Fountains
of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne perform "Sick Day" off
their self-titled album.
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Dave
Mowers
Writer and director Dave Mowers tells a humorous
tale about a turtle gone missing in the 'burbs.
Fountains
of Wayne
Fountains of Wayne perform "Valley Winter
Song" from Welcome Interstate Managers.
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