NPR's podcast of the week's best arts and culture stories today features author and livestock industry consultant Temple Grandin. She describes her reaction to the upcoming HBO movie about her life, starring Claire Danes ... and to Danes' performance.
Legendary author JD Salinger is remembered as one of literature's most enigmatic dissidents, and the creators of Lost talk about their favorite DVDs. It turns out that one of them was the inspiration for "Johnny the Explainer," the Lost device where somebody ambles out of the woods every so often to tell you, in their words, "what the hell is going on" in the show's famously byzantine plot.
Film critic Bob Mondello raises some provocative questions about a number of movies in theaters right now featuring ghostly daughters. Former NPR reporter turned bestselling author Eric Weiner shares his concerns about the iPad. And the afro-pop-inflected band Vampire Weekend spill their true feelings about Paul Simon's 1990 album, The Rhythm of the Saints.
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