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Alan Cheuse reviews The Best Short Stories of William Kittredge, a collection of stories from the Montana writer who started out his adult life as a rancher and farmer.

The video, along with one parodying Gilligan's Islandcost tax payers $60,000 to make. The IRS has since admitted the expenditure was a mistake.

Whitmore has been called a folk singer, a roots troubadour and an heir to Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen. He grew up on the fertile land between the Mississippi and Des Moines Rivers, on a horse farm in Iowa. Whitmore's new album, Field Songs, is an ode to family farmers.

The Census Bureau announced that 15 percent of Americans lived in poverty in 2011 — a slight drop from the year before. But income disparities continue to grow. Host Michel Martin talks with Harvard professor William Julius Wilson, author of the 1987 book The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy.

Melissa Block visits William Faulkner's home: Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Miss. She talks with curator William Griffith about Faulkner's running theme of the South in conflict with itself.

"Sherri" will "inherit" the time slots on Fox owned-and-operated stations that have been the backbone of Williams' nationally syndicated talk show since 2008

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Uchenna Ikonne, a Nigerian music scholar, about Onyeabor's career and how he turned his back on music to become a born-again Christian in the 1980s.

When the Mona Cheesa goes missing in Paris, "international cat of mystery" William is called in on the case. Helen Hancocks joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about William & the Missing Masterpiece.

The professional fate of Brian Williams remains up in the air after a scandal led to his six-month suspension as chief anchor of NBC News. What path could lead him back to the anchor's chair?

The Shatoetry app allows users to compose poems from 400 words recorded by the former Star Trek captain in his signature staccato voice.

Shatner will be collaborating with a bevy of guests on his new album, titled The Blues.Among guest artists are Canned Heat, Brad Paisley, Sonny Landreth, Pat Travers, Albert Lee, and more.

NBC Chief Anchor Brian Williams has been bombarded by criticism this week over his shifting accounts of a 2003 helicopter landing in the Iraqi desert.

A concert and interview with Louisiana born singer/songwriter LUCINDA WILLIAMS. Her influences have been Bob Dylan, Delta Blues man, Robert Johnson, Van Morrison, and writers Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty. In the late 70s she made two obscure folk albums. But she didn't really find her own voice until 1988 when she produced her own album ("Lucinda Williams," Rough Trade Records) of original songs. One reviewer wrote of the album,"such stunning directness. . . and unforced artistry that it exposed the bulk of that year's. . .pop music as embarrassingly bloated and hollow."

at the University of Pittsburgh about the future of third parties in challenging Democrats and Republicans.

about his years at the Pentagon and what challenges he forsees for the new administration.

The country legend behind "I Believe In You" and , whose career spanned five decades, died at home in Alabama after a short illness.

Commentator Kimberle Williams Crenshaw recently spent time in Brazil, Latin America's largest country and home to 80 million people of African descent. She marveled at the nation's rich cultural tapestry, but she also observed color-based discrimination. In part two of her commentary, Crenshaw explores the myth of racial democracy in Brazil.

NBC has suspended news anchor Brian Williams without pay for six months. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik.

On a busy stretch of 7th Street in the Elizabeth neighborhood Thursday night, William Larry Major stepped into the road, was struck by a car and…

Commentator Kimberle Williams Crenshaw spent some time recently in Latin America's largest country, Brazil. She danced and marveled at the country's rich cultural tapestry, but she also observed color-based discrimination. In the first of two reports, NPR's Tavis Smiley and Crenshaw explore the "myth of racial democracy" in Brazil.