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"Curbside pickup" is quickly gaining traction in online grocery shopping, and it may be preferable to delivery.

Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond's 1926 story collection, Tropic Death, is being reissued after decades out of print. Reviewer Oscar Villalon says the stories are "disturbing reminders of how utterly vulnerable we are to the injustices of the heart and of community."

The ferry service on Cape Cod has a new very old sound. The Steamship Authority scoured the country for historic steam whistles to replace the more modern and abrasive sounding air horns.

Florida State University has filed a lawsuit in an effort to end its 30-year relationship with the Atlantic Coast Conference in its hopes of joining another conference.

Writer Eloisa James gathers the best of 2012's romance subgenres. Expect lots of heat, in the most unexpected places and with some unlikely people: From the military to the paranormal, and from Shakespeare to steampunk, James' picks for the year skip across oceans and genres.

Despite losing to Sen. John Kerry in Virginia and Tennessee, Sen. John Edwards maintains his hopes of making the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination a two-person race. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Adam Hochberg.

Coffee can teach us many things, including engineering. At the University of California, Davis, it's now the focus of the most popular elective class on campus and of an ambitious new research center.

The decision covers eight neutral-site championships in sports ranging from women's soccer to swimming and diving and from football to golf and baseball.

It's been a good summer for author Jhumpa Lahiri. Her new novel, The Lowland, has been nominated for two major literary prizes. But reviewer Ellah Allfrey says that while the book is elegantly structured, she wished for more humanity from the characters.

An effort to collect enough signatures for a proposed ballot initiative to eliminate last year's increase in the gas tax has failed.