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Martha Woodroof of member station WMRA in Charlottesville, Va., reports on the career of author Donna Tartt. Her childhood and upbringing chart much of her new book, The Little Friend.

H.L. Mencken was a columnist, author, editor and linguist. A recently opened large cache of his private papers provides new insight into the life and thoughts of the influential literary journalist. Tom Vitale reports.

A writer in northern England receives a grant to study random poetry and quantum mechanics using sheep. It is text-based public art in unusual situations. The BBC's Richard Wells reports.

Pat Dowell reports it's the 50th birthday of the French cinema magazine that helped Americans take their own movies more seriously. 'Positif' is being celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a film festival and a retrospective.

Reporter Brian Mann profile's one of the world's first theme park designers. Arto Monaco's Santa's Workshop was packing in tourists when Disneyland was just getting under construction. Monaco's creation's were a lot tamer than today's thrill-packed parks.

Robert Siegel talks with Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, about the release of the report on pre-Sept. 11 intelligence gathering.

The Boston Archdiocese is looking for a new archbishop after Friday's resignation of Bernard Cardinal Law. Lay groups such as Voice of the Faithful, which were key to Law's ultimate fall, are hoping to have a role in selecting Law's successor. NPR's Duncan Moon reports.

NPR's Melanie Peeples reports from Trent Lott's hometown of Pascagoula, Miss., on reactions there to the former Senate majority leader's decision to step down.

In the fourth and final part of our series on prayer, Barbra Bradley-Hagerty reports on the people who turn a profit on prayer and those who are concerned that such an intimate spiritual communication is being made too commercial.

A 25-year-old science teacher in Washington state focuses on her students' interest in crime-solving TV shows to help interest them in forensic science. Cathy Duchamp of member station KUOW reports.