A fall 'Shattered' Hanif Kureishi's life. Dictating his new book gave him purpose Kureishi began his new memoir just days after a fall left him paralyzed. In it, he describes being completely dependent on others — and the sense of purpose he's gained from writing. Terry Gross
'I was devastated': Jordan Chiles recounts 2024 Olympics in new memoir Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles shares her up-and-down journey to the 2024 Paris Games and what happened afterward, in her new memoir, "I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams." Christopher Intagliata
What's the KUOW Book Club reading in March? The KUOW Book Club is reading "Ma and Me" by Putsata Reang this month. Katie Campbell
Language as protagonist in Cristina Rivera Garza's newly translated novel Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza offers new perspective on gender violence through a murder mystery and poetry. Adriana Gallardo
'Last Seen': After slavery, family members placed ads looking for loved ones Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book. Maureen Corrigan
Food becomes a means of recovery for one young Seattle author in 'Feasts of Good Fortune' This is the KUOW Book Club, and we just finished reading — and cooking along with — "Feasts of Good Fortune" by Hsiao-Ching Chou and her daughter Meilee Chou Riddle. Katie Campbell
Novel 'Dream State' explores the rhythms and limits of male friendships In the new novel "Dream State," the bond between two college buddies gets tested when one marries the other’s fiancé.
'Jesus Wept' author chronicles the debates roiling the Catholic church Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades. Dave Davies
After a tragic accident, a widow faces a lifetime of what-ifs Live Fast won France's top literary prize in 2022. Brigitte Giraud's haunting book revisits the death of her husband in a motorcycle crash 20-odd years earlier. John Powers
In 'Jane Austen's Bookshelf,' read about the women writers who shaped the novelist Rare book collector Rebecca Romney takes us behind the archives that led to "Jane Austen's Bookshelf," a new book about the women writers who shaped Austen. Adriana Gallardo
