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Set over a period of 24 hours, Run explores themes of family, race and identity. The book is Patchett's first novel since the acclaimed Bel Canto.

A scanner is turning a historic 125 year old class photo from a Ventura County school into a digital image.Three college students are working together to…

A new sensation is piggy-backing on the phenomenon that is the iPod: podcasting. The personalized audio recordings, which can be heard on any digital music player, have given an outlet to marginalized experts and frustrated DJs alike. And media critic Jeff Jarvis says that's the beauty of podcasting.

Laura Cantrell is a deejay specializing in hard-to-find recordings and a singer whose third CD is Humming by the Flowered Vine. She tells Liane Hansen about life as a performer, her role as a musical historian, and her decision to give up her day job on Wall Street.

A Vanity Fair article names W. Mark Felt as the anonymous source "Deep Throat," who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in 1974.

The new film I, Robot turns sci-fi author Isaac Asimov's thoughtful short stories into a rip-roaring action flick -- while a screenplay regarded by many as a classic of the genre goes unfilmed. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

Known for his sunny, acoustic leanings, singer/songwriter Jack Johnson is back with a dark, electric record, Sleep Through the Static. Johnson stopped by to play some songs from the album.

Clive Stafford Smith is one of just a few people who've had independent access to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. He says countless innocent men have been held there for years with no meaningful review of the accusations against them, often suffering terrible abuse. In Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side, he details life inside the camp.

Community and food are the central topics of Bonny Wolf's new book, a collection of essays called Talking with My Mouth Full. Wolf shares her thoughts on the recent shift in U.S. attitudes toward food.

Set in the American West in 1915, Leif Enger's new novel, So Brave, Young and Handsome, is rife with train robbers, cowboys and Pinkerton detectives. The novel is a follow-up to the author's best-selling debut, Peace Like a River.