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2: Writer HOWARD NORMAN has been nominated for the National Book Award for his new novel "The Bird Artist" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). The book takes place in Newfoundland in 1911, and is about an artist who murders the town's lighthouse keeper. NORMAN is also the author of a short story collection and "The Northern Lights," a National Book Award Nominee in 1987.

The Stars and Stripes has been a staple of wartime since World War I, bringing soldiers news from home and the battlefront. The newspaper strives to provide an independent voice while under military control. Some readers and even some of its reporters have claimed the paper is too cozy with the military, while many in the top brass say it's too hostile. NPR's Bob Edwards reports.

In recording material for its new series of singles, the hard-rock duo worked with Beck, a mariachi band and a cover of a 1952 Patti Page song. Renee Montagne speaks with White Stripes frontman Jack White.

NCAA basketball fans often strive to rattle free throw shooters — but, for commentator Frank Deford, few efforts match Arizona State's Curtain of Distraction, which he sums up as: "shock and awful."

Last month, on April 10, the Treasure Coast lost a true gem. Thankfully not from COVID-19, but from natural causes. It was Good Friday, and Alma Lee Loy –…

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Elephant, the new album by the White Stripes.

Scientists in Hungary and Sweden say they've found an answer to the age-old question of how the zebra got its stripes. It turns out the pattern may have evolved to repel Africa's biting flies. The researchers discovered this by placing models of patterned zebras next to models of their plainer cousins, horses, and measuring how many flies ended up on each one. Host Scott Simon has more.

A review of Get Behind Me Satan, the new album from the Detroit duo the White Stripes, by reviewer Tom Moon of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Ernie Gates, ombudsman at the Stars and Stripes newspaper, about the military ordering the publication to shut down.