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Natasha Trethewey was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Native Guard. Trethewey grew up bi-racial in Mississippi, and her mother was murdered by her stepfather; these, along with the South, are recurring themes in her poetry.

Smashing Pumpkins was one of the biggest alternative rock success stories of the 1990s. Now famously bald-headed lead singer Billy Corgan has reunited with one of his original bandmates, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, to release the first new Smashing Pumpkins album in seven years: Zeitgeist.

Children are going to have to read fast to avoid finding out from others what happens in the long-awaited final book of the Harry Potter series. Young readers discuss strategies for keeping the ending secret.

As a reporter for Ebony and Jet magazines, Simeon Booker chronicled some the biggest social and political events of the 20th century. For 50 years, Booker's coverage of the civil rights movement was a fixture in many homes.

Summertime is when many major magazines publish their swim suit editions, influencing perceptions of beauty among scores of women readers. Editors from three ethnic magazines — East West, Essence and Latina — discuss why "skinny" might be fading as an industry standard.

San Francisco's oldest black theater company, The Lorraine Hansberry Theater, is about to lose the lease on its downtown home. Hansberry executive director Quentin Easter explains the drama surrounding the troupe's ouster.

Fresh Air's film critic says Adam Shankman's candy-colored teeny-bopper parable feels fatuously energized, with the songs all blaring at one manic pitch and a heroine whose delusional optimism has peaked by the end of the opening number.

Newsweek entertainment reporter Allison Samuels discusses the latest showbiz buzz on Sean "Diddy" Combs and Prince's latest release.

Actor and director, Blair Underwood, along with award-winning writers Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes talk about their new novel Casanegra. The story chronicles the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous actor and former gigolo living in Hollywood.

Fresh Air's critic-at-large reviews a new DVD set featuring two masterpieces by French filmmaker Chris Marker: 1962's La Jetee and 1984's Sans Soleil. The first is a science-fiction story set in a post-apocalyptic Paris; the narrator of the brilliantly perceptive Sans Soleiltells viewers about the letters she's received from a globe-trotting friend; her monologue is accompanied by footage from around the world.