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Writer David Rakoff has a new collection of essays, Now, Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems. Rakoff is a regular contributor to public radio's This American Life.

David Simon, creator and executive producer of HBO's series The Wire, joins Fresh Air to talk about his career and the genesis of the show. Simon writes many of the episodes — and some story lines come from his former job as a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun.

Critic Edelstein looks at The Best of Youth, a six-hour drama first shown on Italian television.

We feature a performance by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris. He charms us with the complete "Santaland Diaries." This piece first ran on NPR's Morning Edition a few days before Christmas 1992. Even though Sedaris has achieved national fame and movie contracts for his humor writing, he still cleans apartments during the day, because, he says, he can only write at night.

In his new book, The Right Man, author and sometime Morning Edition Commentator David Frum writes about what few have seen: The inner workings of the Bush administration. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with Frum about his time at the White House and his opinion of President Bush. The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, is published by Random House; ISBN: 0375509038.

Trump once told a journalist about the Maryland retreat: "It's nice. You'd like it. For about 30 minutes." The recent lack of interest has prompted speculation about the future of Camp David.

NPR photojournalist David Gilkey was killed Sunday along with NPR's Afghan interpreter, journalist Zabihullah Tamanna, while the two were on assignment in southern Afghanistan.

He is the creator, executive producer and head writer of the HBO series Deadwood, a Western drama set in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Deadwood began its second season this week.

Stand-up comic David Cross co-created the 1995 HBO cult hit Mr. Show (an amalgam of live sketch video pieces and occasional animation). He also wrote for the short-lived Ben Stiller Show. One reviewer writes of his act, "foul mouthed and razor sharp, doesn't shy away from vicious social criticism and outright political dissent."

Diagnosed with cancer for the third time, Susan Sontag signed on for a harsh treatment regimen in hopes it would keep her alive. But it only added to her suffering. Her son, journalist David Rieff, has published a memoir about his mother's "revolt against death."