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As host of the NPR news quiz Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, Peter Sagal spends a lot of time reading the newspaper. Lately, he's also spent many an hour going to strip joints, a swingers club, a porn-movie set and casinos. All research, of course, for his new project, The Book of Vice.

Larry Wilmore, The Daily Show's "Senior Black Correspondent," is a writer, television producer, and stand-up comic. He worked on In Living Color and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and was a consulting producer on NBC's The Office. This interview originally aired June 5, 2007.

Alice Sebold has produced difficult books before: The Lovely Bones centers on a 14-year-old looking down from heaven after her own rape and murder. Her latest, The Almost Moon, features a middle-aged woman who murders her ailing elderly mother.

Tucked back in the woods of East Hampton, Long Island is a house that some believe may prolong life. It's modeled on residences in Japan called "reversible destiny lofts." These places have bold colors, concave floors, doors too short to walk through and columns to hold on to when you lose your balance.

My Kid Could Paint That follows the painting and controversy over four-year-old Marla Olmstead's abstract works. Some critics believe her parents encouraged, if not altered, her work.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York is trying to decide whether to adopt an outer coat of off-gray, or one of very pale yellow. The debate over the color differences is subtle, but the debate over the two colors is very robust.

Artist Chuck Close is the subject of a new book and a portrait in dance. He has been called "the most methodical artist that has ever lived in America" and the "reigning portraitist of the Information Age."

Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report talks about his book I Am America (And So Can You!). Colbert targets race, religion, sports and the American family as well as more mundane topics like breakfast cereal and the Hollywood blacklist.

Fresh Air film critic David Edelstein reviews Reprise, the first feature film by Norwegian writer and director Joachim Trier. The movie tells the story of two aspiring authors whose adolescent idealism is crushed by literary success.

When Conan O'Brien takes over as The Tonight Showhost in June 2009, comic Jimmy Fallon is expected to replace him on Late Night. But where will outgoing host Jay Leno go? And how does it all affect Jimmy Kimmel?