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In our Weekend Reads series, NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Meg Medina about Isabel Quintero's novel, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces. It's the story of a Mexican-American teenager struggling with her identity.

There are different kinds of fat people in literature — funny or comforting, sometimes despicable. But Sarai Walker's Dietland gives us a new fat protagonist — complex, compelling and dangerous.

Paul Tremblay's new novel is, on the surface, a story about a book about a reality show about a real-life event, but reviewer Jason Heller says it becomes an "unsettling conversation about the truth."

Miranda July's new novel The First Bad Man defies neat summaries; reviewer Annalisa Quinn calls July "a master of the intimate weirdnesses of human thought," who treats dusty mental corners with care.

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's new collection is a cabinet of curiosities — surreal, loosely connected stories about the human body, about movement, about two-headed calves and saints' relics.

Mozart's fanciful opera mixes surreal characters with mystical rites and rituals and a liberal dose of Masonic symbols and allegory.

Donizetti had already composed more than 60 operas when he wrote Don Pasquale, a brilliant comedy warmed by the composer's trademark touch of gentle pathos.

Donizetti's Don Pasquale is one of the funniest operas ever composed, but with the composer's tradmark touch of gentle pathos shining through the laughs.

Gounod's Faust is the classic story of a deal with the devil, based on plays by Goethe and Michel Carre.

As consumers cut back their spending in the worsening economy, the effects are being felt even in the wastepaper recycling and exporting industry. Decreased demand for products means a drop in the need for packaging — and the recycled materials that it's made from.