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You may know the work of Sooni Taraporevala from the big screen — she wrote the screenplays for Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, each of which won awards. But when she's not writing, Taraporevala enjoys taking photographs. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, talks about his debut novel, Pretty Birds. The story centers on a young Muslim woman who becomes a sniper during the height of the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.

The back rooms at a Harvard University museum are filled with millions of items that will never be displayed. But curators just can't bring themselves to throw anything away.

Don Kroodsma records the unique, regional dialects of both birds and the people who love to listen to them. In his new book, he champions a theory: Like people, birds also have their own "accents."

A messy divorce threatens to overshadow Terry McMillan's latest book tour. The best-selling author discusses The Interruption of Everything and revelations about her personal life which emerged during its writing.

Journalist Steven V. Roberts was writing about his family when his mother produced letters she had exchanged with his father years ago. Roberts talks about his parents and his new book, My Fathers' Houses: Memoir of a Family.

Linda Ellerbee, self-described "recovering journalist," has written a memoir that's also a bit of a travel guide. And it's about food, too. Ellerbee's new book is Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table.

Little fingers get the chance to turn the pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But librarian Nancy Pearl has options not-so-Harry for parents, kids, and fans of the series.

Nancy Pearl is back with another stack of book recommendations. This time, Pearl talks about some of her favorite short story collections. At left, a detail from the cover of Among the Missing — one of her favorites.

Spalding Gray talked onstage about his marriages, his travels, about sex, his many fears and always about death. His last monologue, left unfinished when he committed suicide, has now been published.