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In Donald Ray Pollock's first book — named after a real town in southern Ohio — characters are unloveable and raunchy — but compelling. Pollack's novel comes after a long career as a factory worker, where he dreamed of being a writer.

Seventy-five years ago, Nazi police chief Heinrich Himmler announced the opening of Dachau concentration camp, 10 miles outside of Munich. Dachau, which became a model for other Nazi camps, was the site of more than 28,000 deaths before liberators arrived in April 1945.

During their childhood, Melissa Wilbur and Janaki Symon's relationship was marked by bitterness and jealousy. But an unexpected sign of affection finally brought the sisters closer.

In Jane Boleyn: The Infamous Lady Rochford, author Julia Fox challenges the long-standing picture of Jane Boleyn as an opportunistic and vindictive woman who helped condemn her sister-in-law, Anne Boleyn, to death.

The veteran television journalist reflects on her glamorous — but unhappy — childhood, and her storied career interviewing notable celebrities, presidents and even murderers.

Tobias Wolff's new collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, centers on moments of quiet epiphany. "If you change the direction of your life by a little degree, years later you're going to end up in a very different direction than if you hadn't," Wolff says.

In his new book, Why We Hate Us, NPR's Dick Meyer argues that a lack of trust in public leadership and an overall weakening of public morality are part of the problem.

Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.

The journal,16 years in the making, in which psychoanalyst Carl Jung documented his inner life was long hidden. After a painstaking translation and reproduction, it is finally available to the public.

100 years after his death, Mark Twain's autobiography was published the way Twain himself wished. Fresh Air's David Bianculli talks with Robert Hirst, of the Mark Twain Project, about editing and publishing Twain's work.