In more than five decades of his career, Burrows directed 1,000+ episodes of TV classics including "Cheers," "Taxi," "Friends," "Frasier," and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

A biography of Hannibal Lecter. A meditation on trees. A memoir by a child prodigy violinist. A treatise on the way we poop. These are just a few of the nonfiction books our NPR colleagues are enjoying.

Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

While in his first year at college, Stephen Parker turned to his housemate while in the throes of a panic attack. The care he received stuck with him for years.

For more than a decade, actor Laverne Cox been one of the most visible trans women in America. But the Orange Is the New Black star says she spent most of childhood keeping herself hidden.

One of the most intellectually important relationships in the life of the late Fed chair Alan Greenspan was with his close friend, the formidable novelist and libertarian thinker Ayn Rand.

Greenspan has died of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 100 years old.

During his chairmanship, Greenspan was celebrated as possibly the best central banker in history. But later, his reputation was tarnished by the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

In the Season 3 premiere, a new dragon enters the chat and the Battle of the Gullet is in full swing.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with WYSO listener John Blakelock of Yellow Springs, Ohio along with Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.