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The home of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner was rededicated this weekend in Oxford, Miss. Rowan Oak, which underwent a $1.3 million restoration, draws more than 20,000 literary pilgrims each year.

With two credits to go before college graduation, John Crawford was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford had joined the Florida National Guard in order to pay his tuition and didn't expect to go to war. His new memoir is The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell.

The snow is melting, flocks of birds are returning to their summer homes, and folks are drinking green beer... Spring is in the air! That calls for another blast of annoying music, courtesy of Jim Nayder, exclusive consultant on music of mass destruction for NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. Listen to four truly awful recordings, and hear more seasonally bad music.

For 34 years, Bob Woodward has been a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. His new book is about the confidential source he and reporting partner Carl Bernstein relied on in the Watergate story, The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat.

Kayla Williams is a former U.S. Army soldier who served in the Middle East as an Arabic interpreter. She recounts her decision to enlist and her experiences during the Iraq war in a new memoir.

In Poet's Choice, author Edward Hirsch makes a case that poetry is "a human fundamental, like music." Hirsch talks poetry with Scott Simon and reads poems by Kathy Fagan and William Matthews.

Suburban misfit Marc Acito — author of Attack of the Theater People and other comic novels — relies on three fictional gal friends for comfort, laughs and inspiration.

The photo shows Lesley Pilgrim wearing a face mask. While the license is valid, DMV officials say they'll have Pilgrim return to take a more conventional photo.

Some consumers are confused about new federal safety rules that acknowledge the potential risk of automobile air bags to children and small people sitting in the front seat. Yesterday, a 1-year-old Idaho girl was killed when a passenger-side air bag deployed in a parking lot collision. Thousands of people have called a toll-free number of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to get answers...and car dealers say they will discourage their customers from disconnecting air bags, an idea floated by federal officials last week. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Over the past four decades, spacecraft have sent back to Earth otherworldly images of outerspace. Nearly 300 photographs of these strange and beautiful vistas are collected in a new book, Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the author, Michael Benson.