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TV news veteran Mike Wallace has just published a book about his favorite interviews, titled Between You and Me. He shares behind-the-scenes details from encounters with politicians, celebrities and criminals.

Jon Scieszka, a children's author and former teacher, wants boys to read more. His new book Guys Write for Guys Read is a collection of stories, comics and advice on boyhood by best-selling authors and illustrators.

Afrikaner poet, painter and dissident BREYTEN BREYTENBACH (BRY-ten BRY-ten-back). In 1975, BREYTENBACH was an anti-apartheid activist in exile. When he made a secret visit to his native South Africa, BREYTENBACH was arrested, charged for treason, and imprisoned for seven years. In his writing, BREYTENBACH "alternates outrage at South Africa's governmental policies of apartheid with love for his country and its landscape". BREYTENBACH's most recent work is "Return to Paradise" (Harcourt Brace). He's also written "A Season in Paradise," "Confessions of an Albino Terrorist," and many other volumes of poetry and essays

Robert Olen Butler's new book of stories, Had a Good Time, was inspired by messages scrawled on old postcards. Martha Woodroof of member station WMRA reports.

Originally written in 1962, Bob Dylan's civil rights anthem still hits hard 50 years later. NPR's Brian Naylor tells the story of the song's origins.

Through military campaigns, diplomatic ventures and presidential politics, George Washington was guided by a simple set of 110 maxims he first copied out as a Virginia schoolboy. In a newly published edition of the 'Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation,' Washington biographer Richard Brookhiser says these principles could teach modern-day Americans a thing or two about ambition and morality. Read the rules online.

Noah talks with Tom DeBaggio, his wife Joyce and his son Francesco, about the progression of Tom's early onset of Alzheimer's. We visited him for the first time three months ago, at his family herb farm in Chantilly, Va. DeBaggio says there is a difference in his condition from the last time we spoke. The disease is progressing more quickly than he had hoped it would.

In our weekly series, Lost and Found Sound, a collaboration between NPR and independent producers, we learn about self-appointed disc-jockey Eric Byron.