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The Return of the King, the last film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, heads the Academy Awards race with 11 nominations, including best picture and best director. Master and Commander gets 10 Oscar nods. NPR's Kim Masters reports.

A growing number of Republicans are criticizing a resolution passed by the Republican National Committee last week that calls the deadly Jan. 6 riot "legitimate political discourse."

Some of this space debris ranges from tiny to the size of a school bus.

Many authors fear writer's block. But its opposite -- hypergraphia, the driving compulsion to write -- can be equally debilitating. A new book called The Midnight Disease considers the relationship between the wiring of the brain, writing and creativity. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with author and neurologist Alice Flaherty.

The Big Bounce is the 18th film since 1957 based on characters by Elmore Leonard. Leonard says that until the 1990s films Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Jackie Brown, Hollywood almost always got his work wrong. Martha Woodroof of member station WMRA reports.

The recording industry gathers in Los Angeles for the 46th annual Grammy Awards Sunday. R&B and hip-hop artists dominate this year's nominees for record of the year... and a win often translates into record sales and prestige. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat about her latest collection of stories, The Dew Breaker. The interlinking tales reveal the character of a former Haitian torturer who now lives in Queens, New York, and struggles to come to terms with his past.

Every Saturday night in a gritty YMCA in the South African city of Durban, men put on finely-pressed suits, drink cheap beer and compete in an a cappella Zulu choir competition called isicathamiya. They're sometimes called the "tip-toe guys". Isicathamiya means "in a stalking mood" and it refers to the slow deliberate dance moves the men do in unison while harmonizing. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

Walter Mosley tells NPR's Cheryl Corley about his latest novel, The Man in My Basement. The best-selling author examines race, freedom and power in a book that chronicles an unusual relationship between two men -- one black, one white.

It's tough making a living as a writer. NPR's Noah Adams continues his series on low-wage jobs with a look at writers in Seattle who can only dream of quitting their day job.