Fresh Air Weekend: Daniel Handler And Paul Lukacs

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:

Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat: In Who Could That Be at This Hour?, a prequel to A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler satirizes pulp mysteries and uncovers the parallels between detective fiction and childhood. In both, he says, an outsider is trying to make his way in a mysteriously corrupt world.

'Inventing Wine': The History Of A Very Vintage Beverage: In his new book, author and oenophile Paul Lukacs traces the 8,000-year history of our original alcoholic beverage — from ancient times, when wine was believed to be of divine origin, to the sauvignon blanc you find in your supermarket today.

Looking For Bin Laden In Zero Dark Thirty: Kathryn Bigelow's film tells the story of the U.S. hunt for the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks. Critic David Edelstein says the film presents itself as a work of journalism, but that that there's no doubting its perspective: It's the story of America's "brilliant, righteous revenge."

You can listen to the original interviews here:

• Lemony Snicket Dons A Trenchcoat

• 'Inventing Wine': The History Of A Very Vintage Beverage

• Looking For Bin Laden In Zero Dark Thirty

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