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Television talk show host Wendy Williams is known for pushing the envelope and dishing the dirt on celebs. But her rise to fame wasn't always glamorous. Host Michel Martin speaks with Williams about her career, battle with addiction and new book Ask Wendy.

about his new book " >Haunted Places" that lists more than 2,000 places in the country widely believed to be either haunted, associated with supernatural occurrences or UFO landings.

The daughter of a literature professor and blues enthusiast, Williams had been marked to write powerful songs about strong characters right from the beginning. Hear an interview and in-studio performance with the roots-rock songwriter from WFUV's Claudia Marshall.

From country and klezmer to doom rock and metal, Meredith Ochs reviews three new albums from a member of country royalty.

The third album from the William Parker Quartet is named Petit Oiseau, after a character in a poem written by Parker. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead assesses whether the album — whose French title translates to "Little Bird" — takes flight.

In 1795, a young man named William-Henry Ireland signed a tattered piece of paper "Wm Shakespeare." It was the first of hundreds of documents that he forged and passed off as William Shakespeare originals. Doug Stewart tells his story in The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare.

The journalist Juan Williams is out with a new book this week. In it, he makes the case that his acrimonious termination last fall by NPR is part of a larger and ominous pattern of suppressing undesired voices.

Rev. William Sloane Coffin has died. Coffin, a former chaplin at Yale University, was best known for his peace and civil rights activism during the Vietnam War. He was immortalized as the Rev. Sloane in the Doonesbury comic strip. Coffin, who was 81, had suffered from congestive heart failure.

Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams stopped by Mountain Stage to share songs from their second album together, Contraband Love.

In a short edition of Pop Culture Happy Hour, we pause to remember the very funny, very weird, very musical work of Robin Williams.

In 2013, she came out as a transgender woman. Now she fights for gender equity and LGBTQ rights.

commander of U.S. ground troops in Bosnia. General Nash says he expects to have his peacekeepers out of Bosnia by the end of the year, in keeping with the President's pledge to Congress. Also now that things are a little quieter in the war-torn region, the forces are making tactical adjustments.

Williams was a dazzling player and a favorite at Fresh Air. She died March 10 at 73. We'll listen back to her 1997 performance and interview.

From his home in Winnipeg, the folk singer emanates thoughtful messages of redemption and love.

The singer-songwriter talks about leaving her comfort zone on her new record, as well as the effect that keeping her household together has had on her songwriting process. Williams also describes the stories behind her new songs, and tells anecdotes about Joan Baez and her college friend, Stephen Trask.

professor of history at the University of Virginia, about his new book >Arguing about Slavery. Miller discusses Congressman and former President John Quincy Adams' nine year struggle to overturn the Gag Rule, which prohibited any discussion of slavery. Adams finally prevailed in 1844, arguing that the Gag Rule violated the Constitutional right to petition the government.

William Friedkin, director of The French Connection, is now at the helm of a different production: opera. He explains what Puccini and the Marx Brothers have in common, and reflects on that legendary chase scene.

"So I just think that, you know, with somebody who had a 40 or 50-year career and having the public never really hearing him speak in this way. How you're not going to remember that?"

Fallout continues over the U.S. Education Department's payments to a commentator for promotion of the No Child Left Behind law. Lawmakers from both houses of Congress have begun inquiries into the department's public relations spending. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

News of the former TV host's medical diagnosis comes days ahead of the TV premiere of Where is Wendy Williams? — a two-part documentary detailing her health battles.