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Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Wasp Eater, the first novel by William Lychack. Corrigan says the book, about a dysfunctional family splitting up in late '70s Connecticut, succeeds at a small goal: conveying the ordinary sadness of connecting with other human beings.

Twenty thousand Native Americans assembled in Washington on Tuesday for a parade of nations and blessing of the new Museum of the American Indian. Hear museum director W. Richard West and several opening ceremony participants.

The director of The Kid Stays in the Picture, Nanette Burstein, has a new reality series on the Independent Film Channel. Film School tracks four NYU students as they struggle to make their films -- and a career. Hear Burstein and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Austrian novelist and playwright Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, becoming only the tenth woman to receive the honor. The feminist author is best known for her autobiographical novel, The Piano Teacher. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with critic Elvis Mitchell at the Toronto Film Festival about the new movie Sideways.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new three-CD box set of recordings of composer Paul Hindemith conducting his own works.

Photographer Eddie Adams dies at age 71. The Pulitzer-winning Adams, who took the photograph of an execution on the streets of Vietnam that became an indelible image of the war, had ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and Parade magazine chairman Walter Anderson, a longtime friend of Adams.

Those old sayings we love to quote often lose precision -- and attribution -- as they enter into common use. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Jesse Sheidlower, editor of the North American Editorial Unit of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale by Gillian Gill.

World chess champion Gary Kasparov is writing a six-volume series on fellow masters of the game. He's also a columnist with The Wall Street Journal. He speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about Bobby Fischer and other greats of the game.