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Music critic Michelle Mercer spent nearly three years working on a biography of jazz legend Wayne Shorter. In the process, she learned a lot about Shorter, his music — and the importance of the silence between sounds.

Robert Siegel talks with Tom Reiss, author of The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life. Reiss' book details the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew from Baku, Azerbaijan, who passed himself off as a Muslim prince in Nazi Germany.

Bill "Spaceman" Lee's new memoir is Have Glove, Will Travel: The Adventures of a Baseball Vagabond. The book picks up where Lee's previous memoir, The Wrong Stuff, left off in 1984.

In popstrological terms, Britney Spears is a "daughter" of Olivia Newton-John, born under the 1981 hit song "Let's Get Physical." Ian Van Tuyl's Popstrology: The Art and Science of Reading the Popstars shows how pop music's powerful forces affect us all from the day we're born.

Considered one of the premier industrial designers of the 20th century, 98-year-old Eva Zeisel still designs porcelain in her New York apartment. This month, Crate & Barrel reissued tableware from her 1952 collections.

International tsunami relief efforts have helped supply the material needs of residents of Sri Lanka's east coast. Two American men, in the region to help, say the biggest problems they are finding among Sri Lankans are psychological.

Seattle writer Nancy Rawles has just published a novel called My Jim, a book that takes the character of the runaway slave Jim from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and gives him a wife and a family.

James Stewart's book Disney War describes chief executive Michael Eisner as a ruthless leader who repeatedly alienates those around him. Stewart says that Eisner has had many notable successes at Disney, but he has also made many costly mistakes.

T.R. Reid, Washington Post Rocky Mountain bureau chief, talks about President Bush's visit to Europe. Reid discusses what it will take for the president to patch relations with the European Union. Reid is the author of The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.

The controversial, best-selling Egyptian novel The Yacoubian Building describes a country that is corrupt, unfair and thuggish. Now it's being made into a star-studded film.