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The events All Things Considered reported for the past 30 years entered the consciousness of 30-year-olds. We asked a number of them to remember major news events.

Carl Reiner has been making people laugh for more than 50 years. In his new autobiography, My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir, Reiner recounts his experiences as a comic, producer, director, novelist and playwright. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Reiner about turning down Fidel Castro's star vehicle and other moments of his colorful Hollywood past.

Melissa Block talks with Professor Sarah Binder about the history and tactics of Senate filibusters. Binder teaches political science at George Washington University and is co-author of Politics or Principle: Filibustering in the United States Senate.

The online publication Jezebel was been acquired and brought back by the pop culture magazine Paste. Jezebel shut down earlier this month after 16 years.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with Mark Nelson of Santa Barbara, Calif.

In the second installment of a weeklong series on the end of the Vietnam War, Michael Sullivan looks at Hanoi, once the capital of North Vietnam and now the capital of a nation reunified under communist rule.

WATERS, a new project for Port O'Brien's Van Pierszalowski, is all about a fresh perspective.

At first, The Avett Brothers' "Yardsale" unfolds as a fairly straightforward study of the mundane items at a neighborhood yard sale. But then, three-quarters of the way through, the North Carolina brothers shift gears radically, speculating about how nice it would be to burn the whole lot of it.

British novelist Lee Child takes his maverick hero Jack Reacher back to 1990 in The Enemy, the eighth book in his best-selling series. Child talks to NPR's Linda Wertheimer in the second of a three-part series on mystery writers.

Katharine Whalen's first album in seven years offers a mix of jazz, '60s-style pop and occasional trip-hop beats, all fueled by the former Squirrel Nut Zipper's playful, confident voice. The result is dazzling and seductive.