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Liane talks to music writer Kenji Jasper, who has written a novel, Dark, set in Washington, D.C.'s, Shaw neighborhood. {Dark is published by Broadway Books; ISBN: 0767907078.)

Woody Guthrie drew on untold personal tragedies and the national upheaval caused by the Great Depression to stand at the vanguard of a new brand of American folk music.

A provision in the federal transportation bill has cleared the way for California hybrid owners to use the carpool lane. But only the most efficient hybrids -- three models, none of which are American made -- will qualify.

Will former L.A. County District Attorney Gil Garcetti soon be better known as a photographer than as a prosecutor? Garcetti talks to NPR's Scott Simon about his book of images of the ironworkers who built Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Some of the world's greatest prose and poetry may lie in the ash heap of history, according to Stuart Kelly. In The Book of Lost Books, he describes works by Jane Austen, Aristophanes, Sylvia Plath and others whose bibliographies may be incomplete.

Linda Wertheimer interviews the authors of two new thrillers: Michael Connelly, about A Darkness More Than Night, and Evan Hunter, about his collaboration with Ed McBain to write Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts. Connelly's book takes main characters from other novels -- an LAPD detective and a retired FBI investigator -- and pits them against one another. Hunter, an acclaimed author who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, wrote the first half of Candyland, then looked to his alter-ego for the second half, when it becomes more of a murder mystery. (7:45) A Darkness More Than Night, by Michael Connelly, is published by Little, Brown, ISBN # 0-316-15407-5. Candyland, by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain is published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN # 0-7432-1316-5.

Edouard Vuillard was not as widely known as the Impressionist masters, but he created more than 3,000 paintings between the late 1800s and his death a half-century later. NPR's Susan Stamberg tours the most comprehensive exhibition of the French artist's works, premiering at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

With Easter only days away, hatmakers are hustling to fill their orders for Easter bonnets. NPR's Michele Norris visits with Estella Wheeler, who still does a brisk business sustaining the mostly African-American tradition of wearing hats every Sunday morning.

Researchers find 4.2 percent of soldiers injured in Iraq develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the first few months. But at the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the rate is much lower.

The three members of alt-country group Tres Chicas — Tonya Lamm, Caitlin Cary and Lynne Blakey — talk about their name, their music and their debut CD, Sweetwater. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports.