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On Monday's show, Zadie Smith, her critically acclaimed best-selling first novel, White Teeth, was published when she was 25 in the year 2000.

Now she's 50 and is looking at life as a middle-aged woman and is thinking about the current generation gaps, including between millennials and Gen Xers.

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Steve Cropper, the guitarist whose influential work for Stax Records in Memphis helped define soul music in the 1960s and 70s, died Wednesday in Nashville.

He was 84 years old.