'Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed': Hip-Hop Noir

Published April 19, 2009 at 8:00 AM EDT

Marc Blatte's first novel is billed as "hip hop noir" — a thriller set in the record studios and hip hop clubs of New York City — with a full serving of drugs, thugs, cops and violent death.

Guest host Linda Wertheimer talks to Blatte about Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed.

U.N. talks for a global treaty to reduce plastic waste are floundering

Michael Copley

The talks in Canada are not going well,and scientists and civil society groups say the U.S. is largely to blame.
As protests consume college campuses, where's the line between safety, free speech?

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Daniel Diermeier, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, about campus protests, free speech and student safety.
Students at Columbia continue their pro-Palestinian protests

Officials at Columbia University will continue to talk with student protesters after the deadline to clear out passed.