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NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer plays the puzzle with KAMW listener Daniel Abramson of Albuquerque, N.M, and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Commentator MILO MILES reviews two new reissues of singer Tracy Nelson: The Best of Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth and Mother Earth Presents Tracy nelson Country (both on Reprise Archives Label."Poet and novelist JAMES DICKEY. He died Sunday at the age of 73, from complications of lung disease. DICKEY was the author of the novel "Deliverance" and the screenplay for the movie of the same name. He said he wrote novels to pay the bills, but his first love was poetry. He wrote more than 20 collections of poetry. (REBROADCAST from 9/30/93)Rock historian ED WARD remembers veteran bluesman Z.Z. Hill. 12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of Fresh Air. . . a novelist whose first love was poetry, and a presidential candidate who offered tough solutions for the nation's economy. Interviews from the archives with poet and novelist JAMES DICKEY and former senator and presidential candidate PAUL TSONGAS. . . Both of them died earlier this week. That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.

TV Critic DAVID BIANCULLI previews this Sunday''s TNT cable channel presentation of "Samson and Delilah."

This Sunday's Grammy Awards feature some of the biggest pop stars in the world — as Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and others compete for the top prizes in music.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Puzzlemaster Will Shortz of The New York Times play the Sunday Puzzle with Shari Meyer of Sommerville, Mass.

On Sunday's All Things Considered, we will take a look at Weiner, a new documentary that chronicles the political failure of Anthony Weiner as he ran for New York City mayor.

Composer Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere" is a piece of choral music so powerful that a 17th-century pope decreed it could be played only during the week leading to Easter — and then only in the Sistine Chapel.

A two-part blast of heavy weather is poised to strike the Cape and Islands as we head into the holiday weekend. It’s expected to impact travel plans across the region and potentially bring dangerous power outages. Here’s what the forecast calls for.