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Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo specializes in pediatric anesthesiology and treats about 1,000 children a year, including premature babies. His new memoir is called Counting Backwards.

Earlier this week, respected painter, educator and art critic Dan Tranberg passed away due to complications after a long battle with cancer. He was 53. Raised outside of Chicago, Tranberg told ideastream's Dee Perry in 2002 that he wanted to be an artist at an early age. "I always made art, you know I would've no matter where I grew up. But certainly growing up around Chicago and being exposed to the Art Institute of Chicago, which is an amazing museum, and certainly being exposed to that collection had a profound impact on me," he said.

The Book Nook is an author interview program. Over the years almost every guest I have featured on the show has had a new book out. On occasion I'll...

NPR Music's pop critic, Ann Powers, says each of her favorite albums of 2014 gave her new tools to cope with and learn from the world around her, even as that world crashed in from outside.

I majored in applied math, I have an MBA, and I'm working as a reporter at NPR. An economist just told me I'm leaving millions of dollars on the table.

David Greene talks to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe about the protests in Charlottesville. Some say the police didn't do enough to prevent the attack by a white nationalist that left one person dead.

The Seven Good Years spans the time between the birth of his son and the death of his father. Keret says his father, who was a Holocaust survivor, taught him to "look reality straight in the face."

Torn, who died Tuesday, won an Emmy Award for playing the gruff producer Artie on The Larry Sanders Show. In 1994, he told Fresh Airthat he based his character on Johnny Carson's long time producer.

Whitcomb, who died April 19, had the 1965 novelty hit, "You Turn Me On," but soon after devoted himself to writing books about early American popular music. Originally broadcast in 1988.

A bribery and admissions fraud scandal has touched several universities, including Georgetown. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Georgetown seniors Christian Paz, Margaret Gach and Ramon Lyons.