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The new documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone uses various artists to voice Jack Kerouac's novel Big Sur. Director Curt Worden and biographer Joyce Johnson discuss the beat poet's relationship with the California coast.

In 1941, on the eve of America's entry to World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to curb the influence of Nazis and fascists in South America. So the President enlisted someone who embodied the American capitalist spirit: Walt Disney. Guest host Mandalit del Barco talks to film director Ted Thomas, who's new documentary ''Walt & El Grupo'' chronicles Walt Disney's adventure and public relations mission to South America.

Between trysts with various women and men, the British poet Lord Byron maintained a lifelong, spirited correspondence with a clergyman named Francis Hodgson. Now, a collection of their revealing letters is up for auction at Sotheby's.

Radio producer Sasha Aslanian, herself a "divorced kid," spent five years documenting the lives of children whose parents are divorced. She discovered that while the courts and state governments are working to put kids first, divorce will always change their lives.

Legendary singer Lena Horne was laid to rest Friday. NPR correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault honors Horne's passing by sharing her memory of meeting the iconic performer.

Sketch comedy is always risky, but never as much as when you stretch a gag out 80-some minutes longer than it was ever meant to go.

The winner of the latest round of our three-minute fiction contest will be announced Sunday. Listeners sent in nearly 4,000 short stories this round. Each story had to include these four words: plant, button, trick and fly.

Listeners have one day left to get in their stories for the current round of our "Three-Minute Fiction" contest. The four words that have to appear in each piece are plant, button, trick and fly.

Former NFL quarterback Rodney Peete's biggest challenge did not come on the field: It came in dealing with his son's medical diagnosis. He writes about his struggles in a book titled Not My Boy!

At the SXSW Film Festival, we profile the new film Lovers of Hate, hear how distribution will change in five years and attend Jeffrey Tambor's acting seminar.