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More than 50 years into his career, the guitar legend once again demonstrates his mastery of tone, while still balancing his trademark sound with powerful lead vocals.

A week after announcing layoffs, Jack Dorsey says he's giving a third of the stock he owns in Twitter to be distributed among its employees.

Back in August, Carter announced that his melanoma had spread to his liver and brain. Today, he told his congregation that the cancer was gone.

The former vice president defended the brutal interrogation of terrorism suspects and said he would "do it again in a minute."

Beiser gives some of her favorite rock and blues numbers a modern cello workover on her new album, Uncovered.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright turns a keen eye to his home state of Texas. The new book is "God Save Texas."

Civil rights attorney and law professor JACK GREENBERG. He was just out of law school--a white Jewish man from the Bronx when he joined the fledgling NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). GREENBERG took over the helm of the LDF from his mentor Thurgood Marshall when Marshall was appointed to the Federal Court of Appeals. During GREENBERG'S tenure there, the LDF litigated some of the watershed cases of the civil rights struggle. He has just published a memoir of his 35 years at the LDF. It's called "Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution" (Basic Books).

NICHOLAS KRISTOF continued.Satirist HARRY SHEARER, the host of "Le Show," and the voice behind several characters on "The Simpsons". SHEARER is also the author of "It's the Stupidity, Stupid: Why (Some) People hate Clinton and Why the Rest of Us Have to Watch." This week he is in Philadelphia as part of the "Shadow Convention" an alternative to the Republican and Democratic conventions, which covers the issues it says the other conventions won't touch like campaign finance reform, poverty in the midst of prosperity, and the drug war. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE END OF THE SHOW).12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next Fresh Air. . . as George W. Bush makes his way to the Republican convention. . .a look at his life before he was a public figure. A talk with NICHOLAS KRISTOF of the New York Times, who has profiled the candidate in a series of articles. Also satirist HARRY SHEARER gives us his take on the convention. That and more coming up on the next Fresh Air.

In 1981, Knopf published a collection of short stories by Raymond Carver called What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Now Carver's widow wants his readers to see the original stories, which were edited heavily for the book. Knopf says it owns the rights — but to what?

Pianist and singer Vienna Teng recorded most of her debut full-length CD, Waking Hour, while studying computer science at Stanford University. After graduating in 2000, Teng took a job as a computer engineer, but quit this past spring to perform her music around the country. NPR's Liane Hansen talks with Teng about her music.