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Saul Bellow's prose and themes won him the Nobel Prize, many other literary awards and the respect of fellow writers everywhere. Scott Simon remembers Bellow through the late author's own words.

The Lawrence Journal-World newspaper, online and cable news divisions in Kansas are providing a model for how the news media may operate in the future.

The band the Shins have a quirky but compelling sound of ringing guitars and piercing vocals. Their smart and intense lyrics have made them darlings of the alternative rock scene. But after two albums and songs on TV's The O.C. and the film Garden State, the band is spending the spring doing a low-key tour of mid-sized venues.

John Allen, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, discusses the growth of the global Catholic church and what the election of a non-traditional, non-European pope would mean for the papacy. More than two-thirds of the world's Catholics live in Africa, Latin America and other countries in the developing world.

Border communities in this country will be the most heavily affected by the new passport requirements announced Tuesday by the State and Homeland Security departments. Melissa Block talks with Pat Grubb, publisher of the All Point Bulletin in Point Roberts, Wash.

Rick Watson was a banker, making good money and providing for his family. But he says he was only doing what needed to be done -- not what he wanted to do. So Watson went to a life coach.

One of America's greatest novelists, Saul Bellow, died Tuesday at 89. He won three National Book Awards, a Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known books are Herzog, Humboldt's Gift and The Adventures of Augie March.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is facing more allegations of unethical conduct, detailed in competing front-page stories in this morning's New York Times and Washington Post. DeLay said, "This is just another seedy attempt by the liberal media to embarrass me."

White supremacist Matthew Hale receives a 40-year sentence for soliciting the murder of a federal judge in Chicago. His target, Judge Joan Lefkow, had ruled against him in a trademark dispute.

The Space Shuttle Discovery has docked with the International Space Station. In doing so, it did a controlled back flip to enable cameras on the ISS to photograph its belly for damage. So far, there is no indication that the shuttle was damaged on liftoff.