Новости за 05.09.2015

Our panelists predict what President Obama will rename next.

We recorded the show in Louisville, Ky., this week — the capital of horse racing. So we've invited Lee to play a game called "It's just like horse racing, if you pretend they're tiny horses."

Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: The Audacity of Salmon; The Great Wall of America; Brady Balls Bonanza!

Mist Connections.

Our panelists tell three stories about a popular new workout, only one of which is true.

More questions for the panel: Man Problems; The Breakfast of Pontiffs.

Bill reads three news-related limericks: First Class Fido; Kissing Frogs; A Toke to the Happy Couple.

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Jonathan Evison about his new novel, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance, in which the title character finds herself on an Alaskan cruise with the ghost of her husband and a daughter she can't trust.

The NPR Music team shares a few of its favorite work-related tracks in honor of Labor Day.

Rock superstars Led Zeppelin face a claim that "Stairway to Heaven" was lifted from an earlier instrumental by the band Spirit. But what does it take to prove a song's ownership?

Historical novelist Cecelia Holland ventures into fantasy with this tale of a mute princess and a dragon. Critic Jason Heller says the book has an intriguing and unexpected core of Gothic romance.

The Kentucky folk singer says her onstage adrenaline "comes from a focus, rather than doing the high Van Morrison kicks in my velvet jumpsuit."

"Everything I write upsets somebody," Rushdie tells NPR's Scott Simon. His latest book, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, sweeps the reader into a turbulent, magical, mythological world.