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13 Steps Down is the latest of 60 murder and suspense novels written by Ruth Rendell (some using the pseudonym Barbara Vine). She's also Baroness of Babergh, a member of Britain's House of Lords. She tells Debbie Elliott about her writing.

A wide range of tunes for children is climbing the music charts — and much of it is acceptable to adult ears. Stefan Shepherd, who writes the kids music blog Zooglobble, talks to Melissa Block about his current favorite songs and artists.

Lisa Kron would deliver a monologue about her experiences with a community-activist mother and a family rife with chronic illness, but the other voices onstage keep interrupting. Well, a theatrical exploration that earned raves after its 2004 debut, has opened on Broadway.

Walter Mosley is best known for his entertaining Easy Rawlins mysteries, but with his latest title the author decided to turn his sights on heavier stuff. His new book, a non-fiction essay on America and its role in the world, is called What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace. In a talk with NPR's Juan Williams, Mosley discusses his views on the war on terrorism and the looming conflict with Iraq. Hear an extended version of the interview and read an excerpt of the book.

Candace Parker of the University of Tennessee became the first woman to slam dunk in an NCAA tournament game on Sunday. ESPN's Nancy Lieberman talks with Melissa Block about why slam dunks are rare in the women's game and whether Parker's feat means a change in women's college basketball.

Ever since their smash debut CD Voices From Heaven, the Soweto Gospel Choir have spent years touring the world with their exhilarating brand of vocal fireworks. The group returns with a new collection of songs sung in English and some of the 10 other "official" languages of South Africa.

Anne Bradstreet is considered America's earliest poet, and a new biography details her life. Scott Simon speaks with Charlotte Gordon, author of Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet.

A new book collects the profiles and essays of Marjorie Williams, including some she wrote about the cancer that eventually claimed her life. Her husband, Timothy Noah, discusses The Woman at the Washington Zoo.

The bartenders, waiters and busboys who once worked at the World Trade Center's Windows on the World restaurant are realizing a dream and opening their own restaurant, Colors, in lower Manhattan. Colors opened Thursday night.

Long-awaited new music from The Strokes; a first-ever solo studio CD by former Kinks frontman Ray Davies; Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy collaborate on a new CD and more.

For some people, chile peppers are wild enough when they're encountered in southwestern cooking. But Scott Simon and crew recently searched fruitlessly for chiles growing wild in the Sonoran desert.

We Americans love our dogs. More households include dogs than children. And so the editors of The Bark, a magazine that began as a newsletter advocating a legal off-leash area for dogs to play, had no trouble finding enough writers and material for a book of essays, short stories and commentaries on all aspects of humans and their dogs. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports.