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Exactly one year ago this week singer-songwriter Warren Zevon was diagnosed with a rare and inoperable form of lung cancer. He has since finished an album called The Wind. Son Jordan Zevon, the album's executive producer, talks with NPR's Scott Simon.

Art Spiegelman is best known for his Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel "Maus" about the Holocaust. His latest project is a collection offering a different kind of scary story -- one designed to interest children in reading, and the art of storytelling. On Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR's Liane Hansen interviews Spiegelman about "It Was a Dark and Silly Night...."

A nondescript booth in New York City's Grand Central Terminal will be the first collection point for a new national oral history project modeled after recordings made of ordinary Americans during the 1930s. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to David Isay about the StoryCorps project.

Actor John Ritter, whose portrayal of the bumbling bachelor Jack Tripper helped make the TV sitcom Three's Company a hit in the 1970s, dies at age 54 of a previously undetected heart problem. Ritter became ill Thursday while working on the set of his current show, 8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter. NPR's Melissa Block has a remembrance.

Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves is among the few musicians still practicing the improvisational art of scat. In her new album, A Little Moonlight, the Grammy winner fearlessly takes on jazz standards and makes them her own. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Reeves.

When playwright Nilo Cruz won this year's Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play Anna in the Tropics, it became only the second play to win the honor without having staged it on Broadway. The play opens Wednesday night in Princeton, New Jersey -- a step closer to the Great White Way. Joel Rose of member station WHYY has a profile.

A Boston company that went bankrupt was getting ready to liquidate its artwork assets. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports a local organization of arts attorneys saved the artwork, and now the artists have 60 days to get it back.

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Over a 50-year period, artist Laurent de Brunoff has worked on more than 30 books about the famous French elephant Babar and his family. The latest is Babar's Museum of Art, a richly drawn and playful look at the world's great works of art. He speaks with NPR's Robert Siegel.

The music playing as fashion models strut down the runway can be as important as the clothes they're wearing. As part of a Morning Edition series on the fashion industry, NPR's Neda Ulaby looks behind the scenes at the process of building the sound of a runway show.