NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to playwright Kenn Adams about his formula for creating or analyzing stories called the Story Spine.
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You can still have a productive garden, even if the forecast is calling for a hot, dry summer where you live. -
In more than five decades of his career, Burrows directed 1,000+ episodes of TV classics including "Cheers," "Taxi," "Friends," "Frasier," and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." -
A biography of Hannibal Lecter. A meditation on trees. A memoir by a child prodigy violinist. A treatise on the way we poop. These are just a few of the nonfiction books our NPR colleagues are enjoying.
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Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types. -
While in his first year at college, Stephen Parker turned to his housemate while in the throes of a panic attack. The care he received stuck with him for years.
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For more than a decade, actor Laverne Cox been one of the most visible trans women in America. But the Orange Is the New Black star says she spent most of childhood keeping herself hidden.
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One of the most intellectually important relationships in the life of the late Fed chair Alan Greenspan was with his close friend, the formidable novelist and libertarian thinker Ayn Rand. -
Greenspan has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 100 years old.
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During his chairmanship, Greenspan was celebrated as possibly the best central banker in history. But later, his reputation was tarnished by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
