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Culturetopia: Going To the Mat Edition

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This week's roundup of NPR's best arts and culture stories includes an interview with Interview With A Vampire's author. Ann Rice, who's also known for her religious writings based on her deeply Catholic upbringing, describes her decision to "quit being a Christian."

You'll also hear the story of Chris Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G. from our series "50 Great Voices," and the story behind the story of "Breakfast At Tiffany's" -- the movie version, anyway, and how Hollywood dealt with a story some magazines found too shocking to print.

A mystery about a lost trove of Ansel Adams photographs --or are they?-- is explored in this piece, and film critic Bob Mondello talks pointedly about disasters in the movies versus ones in real life. Finally, the latest entry in Bravo's wildly popular "Real Housewives" series raises a psycho-spatial question -- is the show set in Washington or D.C.?