"Accident" Is a Thoughtful Mediation on Anxiety

The veteran sports journalist has a new book called The Heart of the Order, which collects his baseball columns from the past five years. He joins Fresh Air to talk about the respectful way he interviews and writes about athletes, managers, and owners -- and how this approach has enriched his reporting.

Small Faces were contemporaries of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but never reached the same level of fame, in part because they failed to break onto U.S. charts. Rock historian Ed Ward says it's a shame -- they broke up soon after hitting their stride in 1968 -- but the members later found success with Humble Pie and Rod Stewart.

Winters' stand-up comedy of the 1950s and '60s was often improvised, and featured a variety of different characters, all of whom he gave a different voice. He has a new book of paintings called Hang-Ups.