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Alan Cheuse reviews Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres. Cheuse says it's a story with numerous richly portrayed characters living in an Anatolian coastal village in the early 1900s.

Latin jazz pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri chats with NPR's Tony Cox about his long career, his most recent album, Ritmo Caliente, and why he wanted to play the piano.

Gretchen Berland uses experience from her previous career of making documentaries to compose video projects on health-care topics. She has won a $500,000 "genius award" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

After a 10-year silence, Louis de Bernières, author of Corelli's Mandolin, returns with a new novel. Birds Without Wings is a historical romance set in a remote village during the waning days of the Ottoman empire. NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks with de Bernières.

Day to Day and San Francisco Chronicle book critic David Kipen reviews The Art of the Interview: Lessons from a Master of the Craft by Lawrence Grobel.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Monster Road profiles the artist, his family and the films Bickford makes in the basement of his Seattle-area home.

A major voice in gospel before the age of 30, Kirk Franklin is back with a new release inspired by the controversial film The Passion of the Christ. The award-winning songwriter and producer speaks with NPR's Tavis Smiley about his music and why he feels that music is his mission.

In recent years DVDs have taken over the home video market. But many films, including some classics, are not yet out on DVD, even though they're available on videotape. Howie Movshovitz of Colorado Public Radio explains.

You Bet Your Life was a quiz show that was more about the host than the quiz. First on radio and then on TV, Groucho Marx was the ringleader and chief quipster for an on-air circus of celebrity guests and ordinary folks. See clips from the best episodes, plus a "stag reel" of material left in the editing room.

For eons, the term "mama's boy" was widely viewed as an emasculating insult. But numerous men are challenging such inherent misogyny and publicly embracing their identities as proud "mama's boys."