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KPBS General Manager Tom Karlo talks about how the economy is impacting public broadcasting.

Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book's opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — and spouses.

We'll talk about breaking news in the local restaurant scene and get some recommendations for your weekend.

An exclusive excerpt from Anne Tyler's new novel (out on April 3), the story of a grieving widower who is comforted by his wife's visits from beyond the grave.

If the rain has kept you from food shopping and planning for the holidays, don't worry. We've got Chef Bernard Guillas in studio to talk about last minute recipes, stress-free holiday dinners, and New Year's cocktails.

An immigration audit of employees at Escondido Disposal,Inc., found that a quarter of the Edco workforce did not have proper documentation; a major ruling in a legal battle over religious classroom banners in a Rancho Penasquitos high school; and fallout including lawsuits and damage claims, from the recent blackout.

Bumped by Scott McClellan

We speak to "These Days" Legal Analyst Dan Eaton about contest- or competition-related lawsuits. We discuss the details of lawsuits related to horse racing and spelling bees. We also get an update on

Michael Haynie served 14 years in the U.S. Air Force before becoming an assistant professor at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He now leads the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, which he founded in 2007 to teach veterans with injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan how to go into business for themselves. Host Michel Martin talks with Haynie, along with Brian Iglesias, who served two tours of duty in Iraq, where he was injured by a roadside bomb. Iglesias completed Haynie's program and is now President and CEO of his own film production company, Veterans Inc.

As the Obama administration prepares to start doling out $8 billion in funding for high-speed-train projects, proposals have flooded in from around the country. Forty states and the District of Columbia have already requested more than $100 billion for high-speed-rail projects. Though many projects are ambitious, the U.S. is still far away from a European- or Asian-style rail network, experts say.