INTERVIEWERS AND BIOGRAPHERS
The Art of the Interview - Terry Gross
Celebrity Interviews - Stephen Thompson
Biographer & His Subject - Robert Sabbag & Alan Long
Boswell & Dr. Johnson - Adam Sisman & Beryl Bainbridge

CULTURES OF DESIRE
Accidental Playboy - Leif Ueland
Sex Products fund Family Planning - Phil Harvey
Stripper Ethnography - Katherine Frank
Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice - Olivia Judson

POLITICS AND HUMOR
Life on "The Daily Show" - Jon Stewart
Clinton's Joke Writer - Mark Katz
"Al Gore" Song - Robert Ellis Orrall
American Electoral Process - Stephen Elliott

EDUCATION
Know-it-All - A.J. Jacobs
America as Others See Us - Dana Lindaman
Classic Filmstrips - Danny Gregory
A Teacher's Story - Brendan Halpin

WISCONSIN BOOK FESTIVAL 2004
The Godfather Returns - Mark Winegardner
The Onion - Mark Krewson, Peter Koechley,
Maria Schneider
Singer/Songwriter - Jane Siberry
Writers on the Road - Charles Baxter & Richard Bausch

THE WEST AND THE REST
Less Foreign News - Susan Douglas
Married to a Frenchman - Amanda Henry
Captive in Africa - Paul Theroux
Why Botswana Works - Alexander McCall Smith
Real Italian Food - Marcella Hazan

THE FOURTH ESTATE
Investigative Reporting - Seymour Hersh
New York Time Columnist - Maureen Dowd
Journalism in Russia - Jennifer Cohen
World of Ideas - Bill Moyers

COUNTRY MUSIC
Country Singing - Patty Loveless
Johnny Cash - Michael Streissguth
Bluegrass Music - Earl Scruggs
Hillbilly Music - Anthony Harkins

EVIL'S AFTERMATH
Architecture of Hope - Daniel Libeskind
911 Memoir - David Wyatt
Jewish Culture in Poland - Yale Strom
Stalin Biography - Simon Montefiore

MAGIC
Modern Magic - Christine Wicker
Magic Legends - John Matthews
Witches' New Year - Starhawk
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Skeptic - Michael Schermer
New Age Movie Director - Mark Vicente

SEARCHING FOR SERENITY
Slowness Movement - Carl Honore
Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach
Serenity Prayer - Elizabeth Sifton
Spirit of Creative Flow - Piri Thomas

BEYOND EINSTEIN
Finite Universe & Black Holes - Janna Levin
Quantum Gravity - Marcia Bartusiak
Space Age Medical Technology - Robert Fischell
Space Photos - Michael Benson & Lawrence Weschler
Isaac Newton, Alchemist - James Gleick

SPEAKING ENGLISH
Spoken Word Poetry - Paul Flores & Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
Dominance of English - Abram de Swaan
Writing Poetry - Billy Collins

OUR DAILY BREAD
Spirit of Bread - Peter Reinhart
The Bialy Eaters - Mimi Sheraton
French Bread Critic - Steven Kaplan
Southern Bread - Lorraine Johnson Coleman
Cornbread Essay - Anne Strainchamps
Essay - Francine Segan
Wonder Bread - Carolyn Wyman

LIFE BY THE NUMBERS
Primer - Shane Carruth
Riemann Hypothesis - Marcus du Sautoy
Math and Sex - Clio Cresswell
History of 13 - Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

SLOW FOOD NATION
Bio-regional in Winter - Odessa Piper
Super Size Me! - Morgan Spurlock
Slow Cooking - Paula Wolfert
Divinity - Anne Shaffer
French Garage Wine - Peter Mayle
Farmer's Market - Deborah Madison
Norwegian Cooking - Andreas Viestad

POP CULTURE CONSUMERISM
Godzilla - William Tsutsui
Consumer Culture - Rob Walker
Youth Consumer Revolt - Tom Matthews
Creator of "The Rutles" - Neil Innes
Development Hell - David Hughes

MEAT AND POTATOES
How to Judge a Burger Contest - James McNair
Winner of a Burger Contest - Susan Mello
Eating Out - Anthony Bourdain
Seven Deadly Sins Meal - Stewart Lee Allen
Art of the French Fry - Russ Parsons
Celebrating Meat - Mr. Cutlets
Vegetarian Chef - Celia Brown

CRITICS
Pauline Kael - David Denby
Television Without Pity - Sarah Bunting
Dale Beck Profile - Steve Paulson
Book Critic - James Wood
Wine Criticism - Lawrence Osborne

SPICE, SPICE BABY
Salsa - Aaron Sanchez
Spice Trader - Bill Penzey
History of Salt - Mark Kurlansky
Gourmet Salt - Corby Kummer
Philosophy of Spices - Jack Turner
Saffron - Pat Willard

LIVING WITH ADVERSITY
Loss of Right Hand - Leon Fleisher
Memoir of Abuse - Judith Strasser
Profile of a Farmer-Writer - Noel Perrin
Dealing with Adversity - Parker Palmer

THE JAVA JIVE
A Perfect Cup of Coffee - Timothy James Castle
A Cafecito Story - Julia Alvarez
Cultural History of Coffee - Mark Pendergrast
Coffee Divination - Barbara Moran
Science of Caffeine - Bennett Alan Weinberg

DRUGS
Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser
Kid's Book on Drugs- Clark Taylor
Essay on Kurt Cobain - Scott Jennings
CIA & Heroin Trade - Alfred McCoy
Heroin A to Z - Ann Marlowe

SWEET TOOTH
Chocolate & Chilies - Chris Kilham
History of Candy - Tim Richardson
Candy Freak - Steve Almond
Cake - Jeanne Ray
Chef of the Kings - Ian Kelly
Paris Sweets - Dorie Greenspan

GOOD LIFE RULES
Living a Moral Life - Mark Helprin
Faith Without God - Sharon Salzburg
Believing in God - Karen Armstrong
Writing Fantasy - Tad Williams
Punctuation Rules - Lynn Truss

ANGELS
Angel Stories - Sophie Burnham
Angel Movies - David Edelstein
The God Gene - Dean Hamer
Talking with Angels - Shelly Mitchell
Tree of Souls - Howard Schwartz