McCann's novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award. He tells Steve Inskeep that his book — set in New York on the day a man walked on a tight-rope between the towers of the World Trade Center — is an attempt to reconstruct an event to find moments of grace and understanding in history.
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Morning Edition Remembers 2011
It's tempting to say what a snake-bit year this was, a year when American troops were lost abroad, a year of economic struggle and cynical politics. But it was also a year when troops came...
Pyongyang Stages Dramatic Funeral For Kim Jong Il
For analysis of the political dynamics at play during the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Steve Inskeep talks to Stephen Bosworth, Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University....
Florida's Infamous Voting Machines Sold By Collector
On the anniversary of the Supreme Court Bush v. Gore decision in 2000, Steve Inskeep reports that collectors have bought up those punch-card voting machines that caused the hanging-chad...
U.S. Troops Monitor Volatile Afghan Province
Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Quil Lawrence, who is embedded with U.S. forces in a volatile Afghan province near the Pakistani border. They discuss U.S. operations against the Taliban and...
Fed Joins New Effort To Ease Financial Woes
The Federal Reserve joined other major central banks Wednesday in a coordinated effort to shore up the global financial system. The move comes at a time when credit is becoming tighter,...
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