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Samantha Ettus has compiled The Experts' Guide to 100 Things Everyone Should Know How to Do. The book brings together more than 100 authorities on topics ranging from "How to Negotiate" (Donald Trump) to "How to Put on Lipstick" (Bobbi Brown).

In his new novel about a global-warming information conspiracy, Michael Crichton gives us a 600-page "page-burner" bolstered by footnotes, charts and graphs. Reviewer Alan Cheuse reviews State of Fear.

R.W. "Johnny" Apple, associate editor of The New York Times, tells Susan Stamberg about his new travel guide, Apple's America: The Discriminating Traveler's Guide to Forty Great Cities in the United States and Canada.

February's sampler includes new music from Courtney Barnett, MDNGHT, Matthew E. White and more.

Comedy writer Steve Hely details the journey of a young writer's effort to create the greatest best seller of all time in his new novel How I Became a Famous Novelist.

Lorraine Bracco's character on HBO's The Sopranos has the unenviable job of psychoanalyzing mob boss Tony Soprano. Bracco's career has plenty of mob connections: She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas. Now she has written a memoir, On the Couch.

Fiction writer Claire Messud has twice been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award. Our book critic says Messud's just-published novel, The Emperor's Children, might just be the one to propel her out of the "finalist" category and win her the gold.

Host Liane Hansen interviews Tom Mullen, author of The Last Town on Earth, a historical novel set in the town of Commonwealth in Washington. The story takes place in 1918 at the height of the flu epidemic and a community gripped by fear tries to prevent an outbreak of the disease by keeping anyone from entering or leaving the town.

The life of composer Richard Rodgers is the subject of Somewhere for Me by biographer Meryle Secrest. Rodgers helped create some of Broadway's most recognized music, from Oklahoma to The Sound of Music.

Ken Wells is the author of the book Travels with Barley, in which he recounts his journey through the southern United States in search of beer people and beer culture. Hear Wells and NPR's Scott Simon.