Letters

NPR | By Scott Simon

Published November 30, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Weekend Edition host Scott Simon reads from listener mail about the Texas A&M bonfire, Klezmer music in China and alternative uses for AOL's ubiquitous promotional CDs. (3:00)

Scott Simon

Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.

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