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Photojournalist Robin Bowman spent four years driving across the United States, photographing and interviewing more than 400 teens. Some of those pictures — and the teens' words — are included in her new book, It's Complicated: The American Teenager.

The creator of the television series The Twilight Zone often battled with the networks over the content of his scripts. Noon on Doomsday inspired by Emmett Till's story, was considered too hot for TV in the 50's. It was peformed for the first time Saturday night.

Simon Doonan offers his tips for achieving your own fabulousness. In his new book, Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You, Doonan argues that fashion is about figuring out who you are and dressing the part, rather than following trends.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected to leadership following 14 years of civil war. A new documentary, Iron Ladies of Liberia, explores the evolving role of President Sirleaf and the women helping her to lead the country. The film's directors, Daniel Junge and Siatta Scott Johnson, talk about the film.

Patricia Clarkson didn't start getting substantial parts in films until about a decade ago, and now she has more work than she's ever had. Scott Simon talks to Clarkson about her latest movie, Married Life. She says playing a "sexual, sensual" character is a rare opportunity for a woman in her 40s.

David Simon, creator and executive producer of HBO's series The Wire, joins Fresh Air to talk about his career and the genesis of the show. Simon writes many of the episodes — and some story lines come from his former job as a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun.

John and Judith Borger of Minneapolis are giving his collection of 40,000 comic books to the University of Minnesota. Judith calls them "a piece of our family history."

Several zoos across the country now sell paintings done by animals. The Houston Zoo, for example, offers a $500 experience, in which you can sit and watch an orangutan make a painting just for you. Gigi Allianic, spokeswoman for Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, talks about animal art.

Commentator David Kuo reviews the second in the series of Christ the Lord books written by Anne Rice. In The Road to Cana, Rice revels in the artistic and spiritual challenge of contextualizing a fully human Jesus. In narrative pacing and character development, Rice's Jesus is a reading revelation.

The work of America's military doctors and nurses in Iraq is recorded in Terry Sanders' documentary; there's no editorializing, admirably, though the sight of 19-year-olds having limbs amputated does raise questions about the politics of war.