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  • A house on the central Jersey Shore coast collapsed after Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012. Richard Ford said he focused on houses in the wake of the storm in his new book, <em>Let Me Be Frank With You,</em> because they have an "almost iconic status." "A house is where you look out the window and see the world," he says.
    Author Richard Ford Says 'Let Me Be Frank' About Aging And Dying
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's new book centers on Frank Bascombe, a 68-year-old man dealing with his aging body, a dying friend and his ex-wife, who has Parkinson's.
  • A Coming Of Age Story For The (Ice) Ages
    The novel Shaman, by science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson is a coming of age novel set in the ice age. Reviewer Alan Cheuse says it is the latest to take up the question of what it was like to live 30,000 years ago on the cusp of change from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon dominance of the human world.
  • Author Richard Ford Says 'Let Me Be Frank' About Aging And Dying
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's most recent book centers on a 68-year-old man dealing with his aging body, a dying friend and his ex-wife, who has Parkinson's. Originally broadcast Nov. 12, 2014.
  • Jude Johnstone's 'Coming of Age'
    Jude Johnstone has written songs for some of the biggest stars in the music business, including Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, Trisha Yearwood and Johnny Cash. Now the songwriter has stepped up to the microphone to perform her own songs on a debut CD. Renie Montagne profiles Johnstone and her music on Morning Edition. (8:50) Jude Johnstone's album, Coming of Age, is on the independent BoJak Records label.
  • Tuesday, October 8, 2024
    On today's newscast: Data shows some stretches of a uranium haul route on the Navajo Nation are deadlier than others, conservationists plan to sue if state and federal agencies don’t halt efforts to relocate several Mexican gray wolves, ABOR asked the state for an additional $700 million to fund public universities, Pro-Palestine protesters rallied in Flagstaff, one killed in Pinetop house fire, and more...
  • For WNYC's Podcast, Scaramucci Answers: '10 Things That Scare Me'
    A quick way to get to know someone is to ask: What scares you? Member station WNYC did that for a new podcast. Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci offers his fears.
  • Joan Rivers attends the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010 in New York.
    With Age, Joan Rivers Learned To Say Anything: 'It Has Freed Me Totally'
    The comedian died Thursday at the age of 81. Rivers talked with Fresh Air in 1991, 2010 and 2012 about how her comedy evolved — and why she didn't care what others thought of her.
  • Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning 'Killing Me Softly' singer, has died at age 88
    Singer Roberta Flack died yesterday at the age of 88. She won two Record of the Year Grammys in a row in the 1970's with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song."
  • This aerial photo depicts the sawmills of Lagos, Nigeria. The timber from the country's rainforests, some of the most heavily deforested in the world, are processed in this coastal city, polluting the lagoons.
    Mercy me: Photos show what humans have done to the planet in the Anthropocene age
    Anthropocene refers to the age of humans — the things we've done to Earth. Geologists just rejected a proposal to declare an official "Anthropocene epoch." But everyone agrees: Damage has been done.
  • 1,500-Year-Old Sword Found By 8-Year-Old Swedish Girl
    Earlier this summer, Saga Vanecek was doing what she often does: wading in Sweden's Lake Vidöstern. It was then that she felt something odd beneath her hand and knee. The sword is from the Iron Age.
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