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Nam Le's The Boat is a collection of short stories loosely based on Le's own experience as a writer. The book takes the reader from the South China Sea to Bogota to Tehran and Beyond. He talks with Guy Raz about writing from experience and creating fiction through research.
Actor, director, producer and comedian Mel Brooks talks about his long and successful career.
Melissa Block and Robert Siegel wrap up two weeks of reporting from Chengdu, China.
May 20, 2008 · Jean Sebastian Matte, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, says many people in Myanmar who are in desperate need of aid haven't received any. While there has been no outbreak of disease yet, he says that respiratory illnesses and diarrhea are growing more common in the storm-ravaged country.
May 20, 2008 · The Senate's No. 2 Democrat voted for years to fund a war he opposed from the start, but he now says such votes are over. Majority Whip Dick Durbin has declared in recent weeks that he has no intention of voting for President Bush's final emergency supplemental spending request to fund the Iraq war.
May 20, 2008 · Yi Bin and Cai Zisheng moved from their rural village to Chengdu, China, a thriving Chinese metropolis. But the country's economic boom has left them behind. They live in a tiny space on the outskirts of town and barely make ends meet.
May 20, 2008 · Douglas has used his celebrity status for years to call attention to nuclear disarmament and the global weapons trade. The two-time Academy Award winner is talking with lawmakers on behalf of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization that works to halt nuclear proliferation.
May 19, 2008 · Reverend Carroll Pickett was the death-house chaplain at the Walls prison unit in Huntsville, Texas for 13 years. During his tenure, he ministered to 95 inmates executed by lethal injection. He is the subject of a new documentary, At the Death House Door.
May 15, 2008 · There are many gifted jazz singers, and there's no shortage of accomplished acoustic bass players. But 23-year-old Esperanza Spalding's new album features both her soaring, flexible vocals and the low-end thump of her double bass.Web Extra: Hear the Music
May 15, 2008 · Houston Rockets center Yao Ming is playing basketball for his native China this summer at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Yao discusses the earthquake that has devastated southwest China, the popularity of basketball among the Chinese and his view of politics surrounding the Olympic Games.
May 14, 2008 · Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign, is a longtime friend of Michelle and Barack Obama. She's kept a low profile during the campaign, but this week she's the subject of several news stories focusing on the campaign's inner workings. She talks about her role, as well as how Obama will move forward following Hillary Clinton's victory in West Virginia on Tuesday.
May 14, 2008 · Amos Avgar, executive director of the International Development Program of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, just left Yangon, Myanmar. He discusses the devastation he saw in the town hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis.
May 12, 2008 · Jeff Raikes, a 27-year veteran of Microsoft, will take over the $37 billion Gates Foundation in September. Bill and Melinda Gates tell NPR that they picked Raikes because he shares their passion to try to help minimize poverty around the globe.
May 12, 2008 · The U.S. State Department is concerned that supplies sent to victims of a deadly cyclone in Myanmar won't reach the people who need them. Shari Villarosa, the top American diplomat on the scene, offers her thoughts.
May 7, 2008 · Hillary Clinton won a narrow victory in Indiana on Tuesday and lost by a significant margin to Barack Obama in North Carolina. Howard Wolfson, communications director for Clinton's campaign, talks with Michele Noris about how Clinton can get from here to the nomination, and what her pitch is to superdelegates who may be moving closer to endorsing Obama.
You've read his columns. You've bought his books. But should you take his financial advice? David Gardner talks fun and finance with Pulitzer-winning columnist Dave Barry, author of Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like -- Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?
