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Fresh Air Weekend: Remembering Sept. 11

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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:

NYC Firefighters Share Memories From Ground Zero: Firefighter Ken Haskell was off duty on Sept. 11, 2001, when his two brothers, also firefighters, died in the World Trade Center. Haskell's story of searching the rubble for his brothers' bodies is included in A Decade of Hope: Stories of Grief and Endurance from 9/11 Families and Friends.

No Language Legacy: Where's the Sept. 11 Vocab? The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, linger in our thoughts, but not so much in our speech. Linguist Geoff Nunberg says "it's striking that 9/11 and its aftereffects have left almost no traces in the language of everyday life."

Could 'Submission' Be America's Sept. 11 Novel? Reviewer Maureen Corrigan says Amy Waldman's debut novel might be the Sept. 11 novel — the one that finally does justice, artistically and historically, to the aftershocks of that day.

A Military Band Commemorates September 11: The Air Force's Bay State Winds Clarinet Quartet joins Terry Gross for a discussion of military ensembles. The group also performs several songs in tribute to the men and women who've served since Sept. 11, 2001.

You can find all of the original broadcasts here:

  • NYC Firefighters Share Memories From Ground Zero
  • No Language Legacy: Where's the Sept. 11 Vocab?
  • Could 'Submission' Be America's Sept. 11 Novel?
  • A Military Band Commemorates September 11
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