Tribute/Appreciation

Book critic Maureen Corrigan has an appreciation of writer Eudora Welty who died earlier this week, and a review of Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason

Rock critic Ken Tucker pays tribute to Bob Dylan. Today is Dylan's 60th birthday.

TV critic David Bianculli remembers Steve Allen who died Monday at the age of 78.

We remember actor George C. Scott who died yesterday at the age of 71. We hear an excerpt from "Patton."

World music critic Milo Miles offers a tribute to South African singer "Mahlathini". He died last week at the age of 61. Simon Nkabinde Mahlathini (nicknamed "the Lion of Soweto") was best known for his lead vocals for the group Mahlathini and the Mhaotella Queens after emerging on the international stage with the 1985 sampler The Indestructible Beat of Soweto.

Host Terry Gross pays tribute to Stanley Kubrick, who recently died.

This year is the 25th anniversary of Martin Scorsese's landmark film "Mean Streets." We pay tribute to the movie.

Writer Gay Talese reads from "Sinatra Has a Cold" an article he first published in Esquire Magazine in 1966. The reading aired on public radio's This American Life last February. Talese's books include, "Unto The Sons," the story of the immigrant experience in America, and also the chronicle of Talese's own Italian ancestors coming to this country. Also the best-sellers "The Kingdom and the Power," "Honor Thy Father," and "Thy Neighbor's Wife."

Critic Milo Miles remembers singer/songwriter Laura Nyro, who died this week.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan pays tribute to the late American poet.