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Charles Carr was driving the car on New Year's Eve 1952 when Hank Williams died from a heart attack in the back seat. He talks about the experience, and we hear some of Hank's music.

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Writer William Goldman died this week — he had an outsized influence on films, and the way we talk to each other. Scott Simon remembers the screenwriting giant.

Actor and comic Robin Williams is co-starring in the new animated feature Happy Feet. Recently, he starred in the film The Night Listener.

VENUS is the chronicle and result of Williams breaking free of her past projects. Formerly half of The Civil Wars, Williams explores a more adventurous pop sound on her first solo album.

Professor GREGORY HOWARD WILLIAMS. He spent the first ten years of his life believing he was white in segregated Virginia, and that his dark-skinned father was Italian. When his parents marriage ended, his father took him and his brother to Muncie, Indiana, where the boys learned that they were half black. WILLIAMS has written "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black" (Dutton) about the struggle and repression he faced growing up between the races. Publisher's Weekly calls it "(an) affecting and absorbing story.

Author and conservative innovator William F. Buckley died Wednesday morning at 82. Alex Chadwick talks with New York Times columnist David Brooks about the death of his friend.

Playwright Tennessee Williams kept "notebooks" for most of his life. Collected and annotated by Margaret Bradham Thornton, they have been published for the first time.

Shatner's star-studded album uses his iconic cadence to tell the story of a David Bowie character.

The queen of tennis prepares to make way.

When it comes to things like smartphones, tablets, computers and TVs, many of us migrate quickly from old devices to the newest and think nothing of…

When it comes to things like smartphones, tablets, computers and TVs, many of us migrate quickly from old devices to the newest and think nothing of…

Watch the legendary singer-songwriter perform a three-song set at Damrosch Park in New York City.

They called him the Splinter and the Kid and Teddy Ballgame. But Ted Williams thought of himself in simpler terms -- as the greatest hitter who ever lived. The baseball Hall of Famer and war hero died Friday at 83. All Things Considered and NPR Online take a look back at a remarkable American life.

Watch the producer extraordinaire sit down for a rare, in-depth interview with Jason King, host of NPR Music's R&B channel "I"ll Take You There."

Poet and professor MILLER WILLIAMS. He teaches at the University of Arkansas. He's been asked to read at Clinton's Inauguration. He's best known for his narrative, dramatic, poems of everyday people. He's had a number of collection of poems published. His latest is "The Ways We Touch." (University of Illinois Press) which was originally scheduled for a Fall 1997 release, but moved up because of the Inauguration.

William Gottlieb died of a stroke last Sunday at the age of 89. In the '40s, Gottlieb learned photography and took hundreds of shots of the jazz greats of the time. Many of those shots are now well known through album covers, books, and posters. 200 of those photos appear in Gottlieb's book, The Golden Age of Jazz.

The work of a six-man collective fusing hip-hop, funk and gritty soul, The Revelations' seven-song Deep Soul EP blends the sounds of the bluesy rural South and gritty urban streets. Led by Tre Williams, the group crafts a sound that's timeless and undeniably energetic. Hear the group perform live in concert from WXPN in Philadelphia.

The opening track from Briars on a Dewdrop plays like a field recording from a parallel world, yet there's something familiar in how its shimmering tones dart around a core motif.

Perhaps the most recognized contemporary composer in the world, Williams calls retiring "unthinkable." He celebrated his 80th birthday this year by working on the score for Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln.