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Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Interesting Women, the new collection of short stories by Andrea Lee.

The family of literary agent Stephen Slesinger demand royalties on the many commerical uses Disney has found for the pudgy bear "Winnie the Pooh" and all of his friends.

Oscar nominations are announced Tuesday, and Nicole Kidman is a shoo-in for a best actress nomination for her portrayal of writer Virginia Wolfe in "The Hours." Meryl Streep also is a contender, but Julianne Moore -- who was onscreen longer than Kidman -- most likely will be considered for best supporting actress. Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies and author of 70 Years of the Oscar, says category hopping isn't new.

A new online exhibit features the work of photojournalist Peter Turnley, who during the Gulf War captured on film what he calls the calls the "mile of death." It was a stretch of desert road back to Baghdad from Kuwait where retreating Iraqis were bombed by Allied forces. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Turnley about his work as a photojournalist and about the cost in human lives of war.

The new movie Russian Ark takes viewers on a journey through St. Petersburg's famed Hermitage museum. And it's shot in a single, uniterrupted take. Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan offers a review.

Jazz pianist James P. Johnson -- the "father of stride" -- once collaborated with poet Langston Hughes on De Organizer, an opera describing union organizing among blacks in the 1920s. For 60 years, the work was forgotten. But a production of the opera opens Tuesday in Detroit. Celeste Headlee of member station WDET reports.

Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW in Seattle about the rock group Pearl Jam and the end of its suit against "Ticketmaster." Pearl Jam last year announced a boycott of venues run by Ticketmaster. This past week the group said it was giving up its suit.

Martin Sheen is not the president of the United States, even though he plays one on television. In an interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, the West Wing actor discusses his role can serve the nation in trying times. Hear an extended version of the Morning Edition interview at npr.org.

The day President Kennedy was assassinated, Bob Schieffer — the future veteran CBS newsman — was still just a young newspaper reporter in Texas. But he got closer to that day's events than he ever would have imagined. In an interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, Schieffer recounts that and other stories in his new book, This Just In. Hear an extended version of the interview.

Chris Butler's group The Waitresses had some hits in the 1980s -- especially "I Know What Boys Like" and "Christmas Wrapping." But his latest CD, The Museum of Me, is a collection of new songs recorded on old equipment, including wax cylinders, wire recorders and antique tape machines.