What if a 'Blood Test' predicted you'd commit murder? In Charles Baxter's new novel, a small-town insurance salesman buys a blood test that can predict romantic entanglements, promotions — and more. It's a screwball satire of all-American zaniness. Maureen Corrigan
Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine looks back at her 'Wall of Life' In her new book "The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime," each of MacLaine's photos comes with a single paragraph.
Egan's 'The Good Rain' is still a prescient exploration of the PNW more than 30 years later This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Timothy Egan's "The Good Rain." Katie Campbell
What do women and female orcas have in common? A lot in midlife Seattle author Angela Garbes has found a distinctly Pacific Northwest way to talk about female middle-age: a conversation about orcas. Katie Campbell
Create simple, delicious meals with Jamie Oliver's '5 Ingredient Mediterranean' Cooking does not need to be complicated, and Jamie Oliver proves it.
A housemaid is suspected of killing a child in 'Clean,' a novel about class and power Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán has written an intense novel about the kind of deep down rot that lingers, despite the most vigorous scrubbing. Maureen Corrigan
A former inspector general shares stories of government waste, fraud and abuse As IG, Glenn Fine oversaw investigations of the mishandling of documents in the Oklahoma bombing case, the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and corruption in the Navy. His book is Watchdogs. Dave Davies
One of Ukraine’s most celebrated poets is touring the United States Marianna Kiyanovska, one of Ukraine's leading poets, has been speaking about writing in wartime. Her latest collection, "The Voices of Babyn Yar," is about victims of the Holocaust. Neda Ulaby
Valuable advice on parenting a disabled child shared in new book "Everything No One Tells You About Parenting a Disabled Child" is a roadmap offering guidance, stories, and support for parents about diagnosis, school, insurance, disability rights and parenting.
Wrongful convictions are at the center of John Grisham's new book 'Framed' Grisham and his co-author and Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey write about men and women who were convicted of crimes because of poor policing and incompetent "expert witnesses."
