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Author Jonathan Franzen joins Fresh Air to discuss his critically acclaimed and award-winning novel, The Corrections. It is a saga about two generations of an American family; the parents and their children.

Robert Siegel talks with David Spencer, mission manager for the Mars Odyssey, a spacecraft that's scheduled to begin orbiting Mars tomorrow.

Scott shoots some hoops and talks with John Edgar Wideman former all-star college basketball player and author of Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race and Love. Mr. Wideman says he thinks that playground ball is where you see the authentic game.

Gourmet guru Julia Child is saying goodbye to her Cambridge, Mass., home, where she has held court on good cooking for 40 years. She's headed for retirement in sunny California. Rachel Gotbaum from NPR member station WBUR sat down for an interview with Child in her pot-cluttered kitchen.

More than bombs are dropping on Afghanistan. Psychological warfare soldiers are dropping leaflets and broadcasting news and music, hoping to frighten the Taliban and foster civilian support. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on the military's war of words.

Leave it to an imaginative Polish film director to find an innovative way to frame a classic opera. Mariusz Trelinski speaks with host Robert Siegel about how to make Madama Butterfly register with a television-jaded audience.

A new 3-D database offers researchers unprecedented details of the human brain. NPRs Michelle Trudeau visits the laboratory of the human brain atlas project in California.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on a meteor shower that's anticipated early tomorrow morning. Although predictions have been notoriously unreliable, Sunday's shower could be the most spectacular in over 30 years.

An independent oversight committee tells Congress that NASA should scale back its plans for a full-scale International Space Station until the space agency can stop cost overruns that have nearly quadupled the price tag.

Poet Alan Dugan burst on the scene 40 years ago, winning the National Book Award for his very first collection of poems. In Nov., 2001, he won a second time. Dugan talks with host Linda Wertheimer about critics, time and what makes a good poem.