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In Memoir, Linda Ronstadt Describes Her 'Simple Dreams'

Ronstadt recently revealed that she has Parkinson's disease and can no longer sing. Her memoir, Simple Dreams, reflects on a long career. In this conversation with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, she offers frank insights on sex, drugs, and why "competition was for horse races."

U.S. Army soldiers begin their journey home from Iraq on July 13, 2010.

In 'Fire And Forget,' Vets Turned Writers Tell Their War Stories

Roy Scranton and Jacob Siegel edited and contributed to the collection of short stories by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They tell Fresh Air about how soldiers cope with the fear of death, and why many soldiers feel conflicted about sharing their experience with a larger audience.

A Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane pictured on Thursday in Seattle.

The announcement follows a mass funeral for the victims of last Sunday's Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. Relatives say they were offered soil from the site of the crash.

Margo Jefferson is a writing professor at Columbia University. In 1994, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for her work at <em>The New York Times.</em>

Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In 'Negroland'

In her memoir, Negroland, Margo Jefferson describes growing up black and affluent in 1950s Chicago. Jefferson tells Fresh Air it was a world of sophistication — and snobbery.

To Get Their Cars In Films, Automakers Turn To A Movie Motor Wrangler

Transformers Age of Extinction offers a big screen sample of how automakers aggressively market their cars to movie studios. Once, in an earlier age when Mustang convertibles ruled the road, they didn't have to.

"Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child," Mary Gauthier says.

Mary Gauthier De-Romanticizes Romantic Love

Trouble & Love is about a relationship that went bad. "I think that this is one where Mary finally gets the lesson," Gauthier tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

Moral Injury Is The 'Signature Wound' Of Today's Veterans

Journalist David Wood says "almost everyone" in war has suffered a violation of their sense of right and wrong. As a result, Wood tells Fresh Air, veterans deal with grief, numbness or guilt.

Sheldon Harnick (right) with the late Jerry Bock, his long-time musical collaborator. Together they worked on musicals like <em>Fiddler on the Roof</em> and <em>Fiorello!</em>

At 90, 'Fiddler' Lyricist Tells His Story

"Any successful lyricist has to be part playwright and has to be able to put himself into the minds and the hearts and the souls of the characters," Sheldon Harnick tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

Alyssa Mastromonaco sits with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One in 2012. Mastromonaco served as the president's director of scheduling and advance from 2009 until 2011, then became his deputy chief of staff for operations from 2011 until 2014.

'I Basically Ran On Adrenaline': A Staffer Remembers Obama's White House

Alyssa Mastromonaco worked in the West Wing for six exhilarating and exhausting years. She describes that era in her new memoir, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?

Pentagon Disrupts Path For College Athletes Hoping To Be Drafted By The Pros

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks the Denver Post's Nicki Jhabvala about a change in policy that will no longer waive the active duty requirement for students drafted into professional sports leagues.

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