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Music critic James Sullivan reviews What's Next to the Moon, a CD by Mark Kozelek. (4:00) The CD is distributed by the Badman Recording Company, San Francisco, Calif.; www.badmanrecordingco.com.

Brook Gladstone, co-host of NPR's On The Media, reports on the Internet game, Everquest, owned by Sony. Hundreds of thousands of people pay for the CD-ROM and a monthly fee to play. The game borrows heavily from Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, featuring gods, strange lands and monsters. (8:30) See www.everquest.com.

Our summer reading series continues this week with Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. Bezos is a fan of science fiction, though he says his favorite novel of all time is Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day (Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679731725).

Julia Watson, a food columnist for iVillage.com, comments for All Things Considered on her love of anchovies — "the culinary equivalent of the Wonderbra" — and offers a recipe for her favorite anchovy dish. She says it can be enjoyed whether you like anchovies or not.

Artist Steve Keene has produced more than 100,000 paintings, which he sells for a few dollars each. He talks with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday about why he considers his work a sport. Visit him online at http://www.stevekeene.com.

Robert talks with Raymond Merritt and Miles Barth, two dog lovers. Together the men have collected hundreds of pictures featuring dogs with masters, at work and at war. The book is called A Thousand Hounds: The presence of the Dog in the History of Photography, 1839 to Today. The book is published by the German publishing house Taschen: http://www.taschen.com

Liane Hansen speaks with pianist Rachel Z, who performs the music of Wayne Shorter with her trio in NPR's Studio 4A. Her new cd, On the Milky Way Express is on Tone Center Records. (17:00)Find out more at Rachel Z's website: www.rachelz.com

Jennifer Niessen from member station KPLU in Seattle reports on a financial analyst from First Boston who posed as a temp to infiltrate on-line retailer Amazon.com. He succeeded in learning about the company's financial health, but his plan raises questions about professional ethics.

End-of-semester course evaluations are making their way to college offices across the country. At some schools, students can make their comments more public on pick-a-prof.com, an online forum for students to praise or complain about their professors. Anna Panoka of member station WUWM in Milwaukee reports.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports on Internet entrepreneur Edward Jackson, co-founder of an on-line business called Skillsvillage.com. Jackson talks about his current success as well as the lessons from his previous start-up attempts over the last five years.