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Pizza, one of the world's most popular foods, comes in many styles — from New York to Chicago to artichokes and free-range chicken. Food writer Ed Levine's new book, Pizza, a Slice of Heaven, gathers fact and opinion on an American staple.

Nancy Rawles' new novel My Jim is the story of Sadie Watson, the wife of "Nigger Jim," as he was referred to in the Mark Twain classic Huckleberry Finn. Rawles' novel is an enduring love story as much as it is a chronicle of slavery and resistance to it.

Commentator John Feinstein discusses the major upsets in the first weekend of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Among the big surprises: the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee made the Sweet 16, Bucknell beat Kansas and Vermont knocked off Syracuse. Will Bob Knight and Texas Tech advance?

Early resident stages often lost money and declared themselves non-profit by design. But today the fundraising challenge has grown exponentially -- and troupes are finding creative solutions to fundraising.

In the popular French film The Chorus, a lowly music teacher transforms a group of scruffy delinquents into an angelic-sounding chorus. Jeffrey Smith, music director of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, joins NPR's Fred Child to talk about the movie and what it takes to teach young boys to sing.

Edward Berkowitz is a professor of history and public administration and at George Washington University, where he also directs the Program in History and Public Policy. He is an expert on the history of Social Security.

The resignation of Lebanon's government was a major victory for activists protesting Syria's occupation. But demonstrations continue in Beirut. Melissa Block talks with protester Georges Sarrouh about the scene.

The British comedy group's absurdist humor comes to New York with Spamalot, a splashy musical version of the classic cult film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Rachael Scdoris will begin a snow-bound trek Saturday, one of more than six dozen mushers in the grueling Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. While the course is difficult enough, the 20-year-old Scdoris faces another challenge: She is legally blind.

Maureen Corrigan says Anne Lamott's Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith continues her meditations on spirituality with a series of short essays. Corrigan says she's not preaching just to the choir, taking a "screwball approach to soul searching."